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Re: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:24:14 -0700

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 8:37 AM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
Feasibility of adding some middleware that culls unneeded routes (existing more specific and aggregate routes 
pointing to the same next hop), when that table starts to fill?

This is called "FIB aggregation." It exists and works but is not widely adopted.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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