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Re: Prefix filtering at /24?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Fri Apr 24 12:20:39 1998

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:02:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.ca>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980421014518.1098R-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>

Okay, I'm missing something..  I assume you are talking about filtering
from /24 -> /8, right?

WHY?!  Unless something is flying over my head, this would totally break
the concept that CIDR is trying to fix..

I'm lost!

%P

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

:On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote:
:
:> Does anyone here on this list filter BGP routes learnt with prefixes longer
:> than /24 ?
:
:Yep.  I thought that was pretty common?
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