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Re: BGP prefix filter list


From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:31:15 -0400

On Thu, 30 May 2019 10:42:17 -0700, William Herrin said:
Heck, most networking courses still teach class A, B and C... definitions
which were explicitly invalidated a quarter of a century ago.

If you had asked me back in 1993 if I was going to be retired before class A/B/C
was gone from common usage and documentation, I'd have called you a crazy
person.

I have to wonder how much the IPv6 deployment has been stalled by similar
outdated documentation and coursework (like the "security" recommendation to
"block all ICMP").

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