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Re: Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Oct 11 18:18:22 2012

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:15:47 -0400
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> wrote:
> How many sites do you have? If less than 192, /44 is
> perfect, unless some of those sites require more than
> a /48. Then, it gets more complicated :-)

We're having a general math breakdown today. First Jeroen wants to fit
5 /48's in a /47 and now you want to fit 192 /48's in a /44.

48-44=4. 2^4=16.

-Bill




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