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RE: Level 3 BGP Advertisements

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John van Oppen)
Thu Aug 30 16:01:20 2012

From: John van Oppen <jvanoppen@spectrumnet.us>
To: 'james machado' <hvgeekwtrvl@gmail.com>, Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>,
 NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:00:30 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CADVasu7JxtO7vux5yyVs5w8YXT6UAcpmD=ZSUbaPtjhy3Kz6Sg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I remember it too...   I had a ticket get escalated from our support group =
in about 2003 of a customer who could not get any internet access...  they =
had XP and had been assigned a .0 IP out of a /23 we were using for a speci=
fic pop.   That /23 came out of 64.0.0.0/8 so it was clearly a bit more bla=
nket than a class based filter.   They may have had some third party firewa=
ll software on their machine, I can't remember, but I know my solution was =
to be a bit disgusted and then exclude .255 and .0 from the pool.

John



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