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Re: Strange static route

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Sep 23 22:15:34 2011

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:15:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UPDGcq5gi_5XSz47riZf_jytypHfZL_CH7khyZuU6opzg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Glen Kent wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen a few operators adding static routes like:
> 0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and
> 128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop.

It means half the IPv4 internet goes one way.  Half goes the other way.

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