[36961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: commonly accepted prefix length filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Apr 27 11:13:19 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:06:31 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I'm seeing 103000 routes..
I imagine the limit on what you discard has to be that of the smallest
block of addresses that the registries will allocate, as if you filter
anything smaller you will start to lose genuine networks. Not sure what
that limit is, /24 ?
Steve
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jim Mercer wrote:
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> our bgp tables are starting (?) to get out of hand.
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> we are thinking maybe we should start nuking some routes in order to reduce
> the size of the tables.
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> is there a list of commonly accepted aggregating prefix filters?
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Stephen J. Wilcox
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