[36532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Tue Apr 10 12:41:58 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:39:39 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010410082437.27307B-100000@da1server>; from gmaxwell@martin.fl.us on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:27:54AM -0400
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:27:54AM -0400, Greg Maxwell wrote:
> The reason they don't allocate /24's is because without aggregation the
> Internet is not scalable. Perhaps they are being too agressive, but the
> reasoning is sound.
Aggregation buys time, that's it. Aggregation does not make the
current routing methods any more scalable.
--msa
