[140934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed May 25 13:27:07 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimgbgd8sDwC_thYMXfzrta44vypPA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:26:56 -0700
To: Jeremy <jbaino@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 24, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Jeremy wrote:
> As long as necessary precautions are taken (route filters, tunnels, =
VRF's)
> shouldn't this be technically feasible without any negative =
ramifications?
Any? Debatable. Doing stuff like this has costs, but I suspect the folks =
at Rogers aren't idiots and actually did a cost/benefit analysis.=20
> Couldn't
> you theoretically use anyone's IP space, advertised or not, for this
> internal transit?
Yes.
> I'm not saying it's a good idea, it's certainly more
> complex which leads to its own issues, but shouldn't it be possible?
Of course. Not even sure it is more complex.=20
Regards,
-drc
