[c-nsp] how many maximum BGP routers can be to reside in one AS?

[Keegan Holley]

2011/5/26 Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org>

> On 26/05/2011 18:20, Keegan Holley wrote:
>
>> Why on gods green earth would anyone fully mesh 2500 routers.
>>
>
> People do the most extraordinary things.  A couple of years ago, a well
> large italian access service provider natted their entire customer range to
> a handful of public addresses.  That was fun, and I expect it taught them
> some serious lessons about how natting your entire customer range is a
> really bad idea.
>
> But I guess lots of service providers will need to learn this lesson the
> hard way very soon.
>

Agreed, but hopefully that provider didn't do that based on a vague
conversation via a newsgroup with someone halfway across the world with
their first message saying that they do not plan to nat their entire
customer range. ;)