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Re: /24s run amuck

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Louwers)
Tue Jan 13 16:30:49 2004

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:18:39 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <283EBA5E-460D-11D8-9CBB-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:12:13PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 
> Answer: You don't.  This is the type of deaggregation which is a 
> "necessary evil".  And, IMHO, why filtering on /20 (or whatever) is a 
> Bad Thing.  You have just as much right to multiple upstreams as the 

Filtering on a /20 or whatever (up to /24) is a bad thing because
RIPE (and maybe APNIC) actually gives out /24 PI space, that comes out
of RIPE's /8's, not your upstream's /20 or /16 or /whatever...

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers - on a /24 PI space...

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