[94296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big a network is routed these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Jan 17 09:29:19 2007
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:27:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2c2ea5560701170605k45597ff7tdb7fe5244afc0700@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, John Smith wrote:
> my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost.
> Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives,
> my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably
> sure the BGP routers will accept the route?
A /24 is the smallest block of IPv4 addresses that you can reasonably
expect to be globally reachable. Depending on where you're located, the
different address registries (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc...) have different
policies regarding the smallest PI block they'll allocate to end users.
jms
