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Re: BGP announcements and small providers
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:05:41 -0500
At 06:17 PM 2/25/97 -0700, Chris Phillips wrote:
We service hundreds of dedicated customers and some customers don't mind renumbering (if they are small) but most of our larger customers who have more than 100-200 hosts on their network have expressed GREAT opposition to any such notion of renumbering. Its not that they don't want to do it because they are lazy, on the contrary, many companies cannot the afford the downtime or cost asociated with renumbering their LAN/WAN. I agree that renumbering is an important aspect of address grooming for better agregation but there are some real $$$ costs to some end-user networks to do so. Also, how many times can you ask a customer to renumber before they bail and go elsewhere?
It's been suggested that renumbering is a fact of life; everyone will do it at least once in their lifetime. This is one of the reasons why an entire working group in the IETF has been created to deal with this from an operational perspective. See: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pier-charter.html and http://www.isi.edu:80/div7/pier/ See also RFC2071. - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: BGP announcements and small providers, (continued)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Adrian Bool (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Geoff White (Feb 26)
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- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Alex.Bligh (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Michael Dillon (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Tim Pozar (Feb 25)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Sean Rolinson (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Michael Dillon (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Lyndon Levesley (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Bradley Dunn (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Douglas Warren (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Adrian Bool (Feb 28)