Re: ISP Filter Policies--Effect is what?

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, John Fraizer wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > if you have a /16 why would it be broken down to /24? i would assume the
> > only reason you advertise /24 is because that is the size of your
> > assignment from the NIC, in which case you cannot advertise the /16.
> >
> > if you do own the /16 then yes of course you can advertise it.
>
> Stephen, you neglected to look at the big picture.  The "organization" has
> the /16 but has sites spread out all over the planet and has assigned
> /24's to them.  Additionally, they connect into the global net via diverse
> providers.

Ah, I got -snip- happy there :) in that case I would question the logic of
being given a large address block only to break it into pieces all over
the world. 

I'd wonder why they dont take address space from a regional provider - if
its only /24 it cant be that mission critical for bgp and multihoming...


> > <snip>
> > Site                    BGP Advertisement       to      ISP
> > Amsterdam               169.61.201.0/24         AMSISP
> > Austin          169.61.111.0/24         Genuity & Internap
> > SanFran         169.61.119.0/24         Genuity & Internap
> > Tokyo                   169.61.202.0/24         TOKISP
> > Sydney          169.61.156.0/24         SYDISP
>
>
> ---
> John Fraizer
> EnterZone, Inc

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