Besides which more than one provider filters by a minimum prefix length per /8 - wasn't Swisscom or someone similar doing that? So multi homing with even a /24 is somewhat patchy in terms of effectiveness
--srs > On 02-Oct-2015, at 8:54 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <li...@mtin.net> wrote: >> 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)? > > Hi Justin, > > Rent or sell them a /24 and make money. If they can't afford a /24 at > today's market rate, why should the rest of us spend much more money > upgrading routers to accommodate their advertisement? > > The annual systemic cost of carrying that prefix is still more than > double the one-time cost of acquiring a /24. No doubt that gap will > close, but there's no cost justification to change the /24 filters > just yet. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>