[38873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Deaggregation of class B..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Thu Jun 21 13:29:10 2001
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:26:41 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Bleetzin Boopzin <flustrationated@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010621132640.B12958@reptiles.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20010621172045.69331.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com>; from flustrationated@yahoo.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:20:45AM -0700
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:20:45AM -0700, Bleetzin Boopzin wrote:
> Can anyone offer some advice on how to explain to my
> boss that further deaggregating and spreading little
> announcements of our class B to different ISPs all
> over the world is a bad idea? Are there any specific
> web page references or previous NANOG posts that
> accurately explain the risks/implications from an
> objective viewpoint?
one of my clients tried that, and they were overwhelmed by places that
they couldn't connect to because various upstreams were ditching the
subnets of classful class-b's.
if you are going to do this, you better advertise and aggregate /16, so
that these people will in fact get where they are going.
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