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Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:34:13 -0500
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:21:15PM -0800, Joe McGuckin wrote:
RAS, I have to admit that I'm guilty of using the phrase "class C" more or less interchangably with "/24" - I suspect a lot of us still do that...
Well, on behalf of the entire networking community, I hereby ask you to stop it. :) It's just a bad habit, and while you may know exactly what it means and doesn't mean, it does nothing but confuse new people about how and why classless routing works. It is absolutely absurd that so many people still teach classful routing FIRST to new students in this day and age, and then approach classless routing like it is something new and different which should be considered as an afterthought. Just remember, the people you confuse today are the ones who are going to be announcing their legacy erm "class B" allocations as /24s tomorrow, because they don't know any better. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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- FW: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes spam (Nov 02)
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- Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Edward W. Ray (Nov 02)
- RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Hannigan, Martin (Nov 02)
- RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Edward W. Ray (Nov 02)
- RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes John Dupuy (Nov 02)
- Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Richard A Steenbergen (Nov 02)
- Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Joe McGuckin (Nov 02)
- Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Randy Bush (Nov 02)
- Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Richard A Steenbergen (Nov 02)
- classful routes redux bmanning (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Fred Baker (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Bill Woodcock (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Fred Baker (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Bill Woodcock (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Kevin Loch (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Richard A Steenbergen (Nov 05)
- Re: classful routes redux Geoff Huston (Nov 05)
- RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Edward W. Ray (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Niels Bakker (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Stephen J. Wilcox (Nov 02)