Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

Mon Sep 10 15:16:17 UTC 2007

Thus spake "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org>
> The trouble is, it turns out there are a number of networks where
> CIDR isn't spoken.  They get their IP space from their RIR, break
> it up into /24s, and announce those /24s (the ones they're using
> anyway) into BGP as /24s with no covering CIDR.

IMHO, such networks are broken and they should be filtered.  If people doing 
this found themselves unable to reach the significant fraction of the Net 
(or certain key sites), they would add the covering route even if they were 
hoping people would accept their incompetent/TE /24s.

S

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