Good question. You know there are thousands of legacy /24's out there that were allocated by IANA as /24's How can you aggregate them up if all you have is the /24?
To those who filter out /24's - how is this done - just by the netmask size? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Christophe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 15:34 Subject: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s > > > In current practice would there be serious jeopardy of portions of the > internet not being able to reach this address space due to bgp filters or > other restrictions? What is the smallest acceptable block of IPs that can be > announced without adverse or unpredictable results? Verio would most likely > be picking up these routes from us. I don't want to cause a religious > debate, but I am interested in what the industry consensus is. > > I'm just doing some research, any comments would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jean-Christophe Smith > >
