[31424] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Sep 22 23:50:57 2000
Date: 22 Sep 2000 20:49:04 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Fri, 22 September 2000, John Fraizer wrote:
> Who's forcing address space on customers? It's like pulling teeth to get
> address space from most of them!
Cable&Wireless for one. I worked with several customers who never used
the /24's allocated by C&W, but even after repeatedly telling C&W we don't
need them, C&W wouldn't take them back. Every circuit came with a /24
whether you needed it or not.