A /24 isn't that expensive yet... Matthew Kaufman
(Sent from my iPhone) > On Oct 2, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <li...@mtin.net> wrote: > > I was in a discussion the other day and several Tier2 providers were talking > about the idea of adjusting their BGP filters to accept prefixes smaller than > a /24. A few were saying they thought about going down to as small as a /27. > This was mainly due to more networks coming online and not having even a /24 > of IPv4 space. The first argument is against this is the potential bloat the > global routing table could have. Many folks have worked hard for years to > summarize and such. others were saying they would do a /26 or bigger. > > However, what do we do about the new networks which want to do BGP but only > can get small allocations from someone (either a RIR or one of their > upstreams)? > > Just throwing that out there. Seems like an interesting discussion. > > > Justin Wilson > j...@mtin.net > > --- > http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO > xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth > > http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman > Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric >
