[184369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /27 the new /24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Oct 2 11:52:56 2015
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From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:48:29 -0700
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Cheaper than buying everyone TCAM
Matthew Kaufman
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> On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew@matthew.at>=20
> To: "Justin Wilson - MTIN" <lists@mtin.net>=20
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> Subject: Re: /27 the new /24=20
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> A /24 isn't that expensive yet...=20
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>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists@mtin.net> wrote:=20=
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>> I was in a discussion the other day and several Tier2 providers were talk=
ing about the idea of adjusting their BGP filters to accept prefixes smaller=
than a /24. A few were saying they thought about going down to as small as a=
/27. This was mainly due to more networks coming online and not having even=
a /24 of IPv4 space. The first argument is against this is the potential bl=
oat the global routing table could have. Many folks have worked hard for yea=
rs to summarize and such. others were saying they would do a /26 or bigger.=20=
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>> However, what do we do about the new networks which want to do BGP but on=
ly can get small allocations from someone (either a RIR or one of their upst=
reams)?=20
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>> Just throwing that out there. Seems like an interesting discussion.=20
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