[26147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Specifics of Classful Nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Wolfe)
Mon Dec 6 14:15:08 1999
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:13:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
To: "Steve E. Powell" <sep@ans.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Steve E. Powell wrote:
> What if the operator had the capability to accept routes based on
> the ratio of good prefixes to bad prefixes received where a bad
> prefix is defined as a more specific of a classful network or a
So Provider A announces his ten /15 CIDR blocks to Provider B, aggregating
huge numbers of IPs into those ten announcements. He then wishes to
announce 20 "bad" prefixes from customers of /21 or longer. Under your
plan, that doesn't fly. Why is it that we assume that a "large" provider
has to be announcing many routes?
-- Tim
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