[57693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: selective auto-aggregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Apr 17 18:04:38 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:04:06 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <390E55B947E7C848898AEBB9E507706041E744@msmdcfs01.msmgmt.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
McBurnett, Jim wrote:
> Only 1 question:
> What about the companies that have a /24 out of the /20 0r /21 that are multi-homed?
> If the route rules are not carefully prepared the multi-homed customer then might be single-homed and tied to the upstream they got the IP's from.
>
> Thoughts?
>
I was curious how much of the de-aggregation was due to multi-homed
companies requiring the longer prefixes. Are there companies that
actually announce their smaller routes despite controlling the shorter
prefix? What would be the benefit of doing so?
-Jack
