Cheaper than buying everyone TCAM Matthew Kaufman
(Sent from my iPhone) > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Much m ore than I'm willing to spend. ;-) > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matt...@matthew.at> > To: "Justin Wilson - MTIN" <li...@mtin.net> > Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 9:48:33 AM > Subject: Re: /27 the new /24 > > 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 >
