aggregate6 - a fast versatile prefix list compressor

Fri Dec 1 10:09:38 UTC 2017

On 01/12/17 07:27, Job Snijders wrote:
> Someone suggested I should clarify what 'aggregate6' actually does :-)
> 
> aggregate6 takes a list of IPv4 and/or IPv6 prefixes in conventional
> format, and performs two optimisations to attempt to reduce the length
> of the prefix list.
> 
> The first optimisation is to remove any supplied prefixes which are
> superfluous because they are already included in another supplied
> prefix. For example, 2001:67c:208c:10::/64 would be removed if
> 2001:67c:208c::/48 was also supplied.
> 
> The second optimisation identifies adjacent prefixes that can be
> combined under a single, shorter-length prefix. For example,
> 2001:67c:208c::/48 and 2001:67c:208d::/48 can be combined into the
> single prefix 2001:67c:208c::/47. As an IPv4 exampl: 10.0.0.0/24 and
> 10.0.1.0/24 can be joined into 10.0.0.0/23.

Will it catch cases like:
10.0.0.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/23 -> 10.0.0.0/22

> The above two optimalisations are useful in context of firewall rule
> generation or generation of BGP prefix-list filters.

Or being a nice citizen and rationalising your announcements.