How do I convince my peers to accept /25's ?? :D --
Michael McConnell WINK Streaming; email: mich...@winkstreaming.com phone: +1 312 281-5433 x 7400 cell: +506 8706-2389 skype: wink-michael web: http://winkstreaming.com On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > On Jun 24, 2013, at 13:29 , Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン) <r...@witbe.net> wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:56:02 -0600 Michael McConnell >> <mich...@winkstreaming.com> wrote: > >>> 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? >> >> Well, /25 are already in the routing table. I can even find a few /26 !! >> >> rtr-01.PAR#sh ip b | i /26 >> *>i193.41.227.128/26 >> *>i193.41.227.192/26 >> *>i194.149.243.64/26 > > The question was when will we see /25s in the GLOBAL routing table. Despite > the very un-well defined definition for "global routing table", I'm going to > assuming something similar to the DFZ, or the set of prefixes which is seen > in all (most of?) the transit-free networks[*]. > > Given that definition, there are exactly zero /25s in the GRT (DFZ). And > unlikely to be for a while. Whether "a while" is "next 12 months" or "several > years" is something I am very specifically choosing not to answer. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > > [*] Don't you hate the term "tier one" these days? It doesn't mean what it > used to mean (i.e. _settlement free_ peering with all other tier one > networks). And given that there are non-transit-free networks with more > [traffic|revenue|customers|$WHATEVER] than some transit free networks, I > prefer to not use the term. >
