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Re: 4.0.0.0/8?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Sep 20 13:27:07 2011
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:25:32 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> said:
> Newbie question:
>
> If I do:
> route-views>sho ip bgp 4.0.0.0
> BGP routing table entry for 4.0.0.0/9, version 821994
>
> why do I see the /9 and not the /8 by default? If I do a specific lookup
> for 4.0.0.0/8 it is there as well.
I'd guess because that's the way routing lookups work; the more-specific
match always "wins".
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
