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Re: Consequences of BGP Peering with Private Addresses


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:54:41 +0100

On 15/06/2011 17:47, James Grace wrote:
So we're running out of peering space in our /24 and we were considering
using private /30's for new peerings.  Are there any horrific
consequences to picking up this practice?

yes. it causes nasty problems if you use urpf (as you should), in particular with pmtu discovery and traceroute.

Nick



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