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Re: IP address fee??


From: Peter van Dijk <peter () dataloss nl>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:51:50 +0200


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:04:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
[snip]
About classfulness: I think it's more relevant, even today, than many
people like to admit. Why is it that I can type "network 192.0.2.0" in my
Cisco BGP config and the box knows what I'm talking about, but "network
192.0.2.0/24" is no good?

That is because Cisco is quite classful-centric, still. I think
defaults for netmasks, based on classes, are very bad. They cause
trouble (like the time a certain ISP announced 62/8 to all it's peers
on AMS-IX). Cisco should support the /n notation!

Greetz, Peter
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