[52781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sprint passes uu?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niclas Comstedt)
Tue Oct 15 19:58:20 2002
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:48:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Niclas Comstedt <nco@comstedt.net>
To: <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210151920440.1325-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian wrote:
>
> It's hard to know how large a percentage though without knowing how many
> Sprint customers are also UU customers. i.e. The combination of Sprint
> and UU customer routes could still be just 47637 prefixes, though I'm sure
> it's somewhere between that and 47637+45410. It's certainly not
> 47637+45410, which would falsely suggest that together Sprint and UU have
> roughly 80% of the internet as customers.
Roughly 34% of the announced UUNET routes are announced by Sprint also.
But as others have indicated, this doesn't mean that much on it's own. It
just means they announce a lot of prefixes, and a big chunk of it both are
announcing.
/nco
