[121637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using /31 for router links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Glover)
Sat Jan 23 14:48:16 2010
In-Reply-To: <1001231852.AA23235@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
To: "Michael Sokolov" <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>, nanog@nanog.org
From: "Robert Glover" <robertg@garlic.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:47:55 +0000
Reply-To: robertg@garlic.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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