/25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

Fri Jun 21 22:28:15 UTC 2013

Quite the opposite. As the technical limitations of the routing gear are reached, shorter and shorter prefixes will be tolerated until IPv4 is utterly unusable if we try to stay on IPv4 that long.

Owen

On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Michael McConnell <michael at winkstreaming.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> As the IPv4 space get smaller and smaller, does anyone think we'll see a time when /25's will be accepted for global BGP prefix announcement. The current smallest size is a /24 and generally ok for most people, but the crunch gets tighter, routers continue to have more and more ram will it always be /24 the smallest size?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
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