[88039] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PI space and colocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jan 18 17:22:55 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060118210200.GC899331@hiwaay.net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:35 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> said:
>> It adds zero useful data to the global table, but increases RAM, CPU,
>> etc. on every router looking at the global table.
>
> How much difference is there between one AS (the colo provider)
> announcing a prefix and another AS (the customer) announcing it
> through
> the first AS (the colo provider)? If the space is ARIN assigned
> PI, it
> isn't going to aggregate with the colo provider's space, so the prefix
> will still be a separate announcement. The only difference is the AS
> path is one entry longer.
Well, obviously, the path entry is longer. :)
It's not huge, but it is there. And like I said, many people argue
over additions to the table which are actually useful.
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TTFN,
patrick