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Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 21 18:34:48 2013

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <8A50075E-018D-41C1-BDFD-61C3874EEDA9@winkstreaming.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:28:15 +0200
To: Michael McConnell <michael@winkstreaming.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Quite the opposite. As the technical limitations of the routing gear are =
reached, shorter and shorter prefixes will be tolerated until IPv4 is =
utterly unusable if we try to stay on IPv4 that long.

Owen

On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Michael McConnell =
<michael@winkstreaming.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>=20
> As the IPv4 space get smaller and smaller, does anyone think we'll see =
a time when /25's will be accepted for global BGP prefix announcement. =
The current smallest size is a /24 and generally ok for most people, but =
the crunch gets tighter, routers continue to have more and more ram will =
it always be /24 the smallest size?
>=20
> Cheers,
> Mike
>=20
> --
>=20
> Michael McConnell
> WINK Streaming;
> email: michael@winkstreaming.com
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