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Re: Your class 'B' address space


From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:08:34 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, John Todd wrote:

I think the number of sites that have this particular situation is very small
and does not justify such an enormous waste of address space to circumvent the
filters on these particular providers.  Small address advertisements (>/19)
are
sufficient to provide acceptable redundancy in a multi-homed environment.

If the registries would start allocating address space that has been
recovered from the swamp to this sort of company, then the problem would
be solved. If a company needs multihoming capability but will never use
more than a /23 then what is wrong with reusing swamp space?

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