[2684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: max. prefix length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Fri Apr 26 16:24:33 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: algold@lambda.lncc.br (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:13:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9604261906.AA16984@lambda.lncc.br> from "Alexandre Leib Grojsgold" at Apr 26, 96 04:06:07 pm
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> Sorry for the newbie question:
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> Is there a consensus on the maximum network prefix length that can be accepted
> for announcement between full-routing BGp speakers ?
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The absolute limit is a /32.
Depending on whom you talk to and where your prefixen lay,
the other values range from /24 to /18.
--bill
