Splitting a block of Class C's

Thu May 24 21:40:57 UTC 2001

One of my ISP clients is leaving, and the person who was assigning IP's 
when they became our client chose to give them class C's scattered 
throughout our block. These are Sprint IP's which are assigned to us with 
our Sprint circuit. Our former client is getting a Sprint T1 and asking 
Sprint to route these class C's to them rather than us, and they tell me 
that Sprint appears willing. They don't have an AS, but they're getting 
another local ISP to advertise the IP's for them. I normally wouldn't agree 
to participate in such a mess, but we're shutting off the Sprint circuit in 
a couple of months, and I can't see making them re-IP hundreds of domains 
under the circumstances. Has anyone done something like this? I'm wondering 
how much it will increase the CPU load on my router. I'm already running at 
20% average, and if it gets much over that I start dropping ICMP packets. I 
know enough BGP to stop advertising the appropriate class C's, but I'm not 
sure that this won't cause problems that I haven't considered. Will anyone 
refuse to accept advertisements which send adjacent /24's to different 
places? Is this an officially "broken" setup, or is it just ugly?