[191981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: nested prefixes in Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Oct 5 16:50:32 2016
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:50:25 +0200
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(Martin T.'s message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:45:20 +0300")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Martin T.:
> Florian:
>
>> Are the autonomous systems for the /19 and /24 connected directly?
>
> Yes they are.
Then deaggregation really isn't necessary at all.
>> (1) can be better from B's perspective because it prevents certain
>> routing table optimizations (due to the lack of the covering prefix)
>
> What kind of routing table optimizations are possible if covering /19
> prefix is also present in global routing table?
The /24 prefix could arguably be dropped and ignored for routing
decisions.