CIDR Aggregation Tool
Avi Freedman
freedman at netaxs.com
Mon Nov 27 18:04:14 UTC 1995
[Please take any other responses just to cidrd. This is copied to big-inet
and nanog so people will see the followup request. I just wanted the
announcement to go out maximally, but the details and responses are of
no interet to nanog as a whole...]
> > Our route table has:
> > *> 198.111.252.0 192.41.177.145 <--- agis
> > *> 198.111.252.0/22 192.41.177.181 <--- mci
> > *> 198.111.253.0 192.41.177.145 <--- agis
> > *> 198.111.255.0 192.41.177.145 <--- agis
>
> This isn't what agis is supposed to be announcing, I'll have to
> ask them again to announce 198.111.252/22. There's a couple less
> routes already :-).
>
> Once that is fixed, further aggregation of 198.111.252.0 (say into
> 198.111/16, as a non real example) would change our routing (in
> ways we don't want it changed), even with your "next hop the same"
> criteria because of the additional meaning that specifics have in
> terms of priority.
Well, we only see 198.111.252, 253, and 255 from AGIS, so there's no
danger of AGIS over-aggregating even if they combined 252 & 253...
> I agree that your tool is usefull in identifying _potential_ savings.
That's all it's for.
Avi
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