Minimum prefix length?

Temkin, David temkin at sig.com
Wed Jun 11 19:03:43 UTC 2003


A few years ago I had an issue with a few of the larger carriers rejecting
my routes (from a natural Class B space) because their prefix length was too
short (at one point I simply had the /16 divided into two /17's and this
still got rejected in some places).  I can't remember which carriers
exactly, but it may have been some larger transit providers like
AboveNet/etc.

Anyone know what the current attitude is by carriers about this?  Nowadays
with ever-growing memory and CPU it doesn't seem like it's as much of an
issue.  In an environment where we're all trying to conserve address space
watching natural boundries doesn't seem all that smart.




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