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Re: Strange static route

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Fri Sep 23 22:35:50 2011

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1109232214410.25015@soloth.lewis.org>
From: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:41:01 -0400
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Well considering that native multicast isn't enabled end to end Internet wid=
e, and class E address space isn't used, it's more like half your IPv4 Inter=
net goes one way, and ~38% goes the other way... :-b

Stefan Fouant
JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI
Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks

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On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Glen Kent wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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> It means half the IPv4 internet goes one way.  Half goes the other way.
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