Strange static route

Sat Sep 24 02:41:01 UTC 2011

Well considering that native multicast isn't enabled end to end Internet wide, and class E address space isn't used, it's more like half your IPv4 Internet goes one way, and ~38% goes the other way... :-b

Stefan Fouant
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On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Glen Kent wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have seen a few operators adding static routes like:
>> 0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and
>> 128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop.
> 
> It means half the IPv4 internet goes one way.  Half goes the other way.
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