[c-nsp] Filtering /24s

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Greg Boehnlein wrote:

> 	We are looking at some strategies to reduce the load on our core
> routers by filtering all routes that are /24 or smaller. The number  
> of /24
> routes that have propogated in the recent couple of years seems  
> enormous
> to me, and we are starting to hit the limits of the RSP-2 cards in our
> 7500s. Short of chucking the Cisco gear and replacing w/ something  
> that
> can handle a larger table, it seems reasonable to me that we could
> probably reduce the total number of routes significantly if we just
> dropped all the /24s on the floor and let our upstreams handle the  
> routing
> for us.
>
> Am I nuts?

Not as long as you have default route(s).

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TTFN,
patrick