Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 11:25 AM Seth David Schoen <schoen () loyalty org>
wrote:

> Matthew Petach writes:
>
> > I would go a step further; for any system of compression hoping to gain a
> > net positive space savings,
> > Godel's incompleteness theorem guarantees that there is at least one
> input
> > to the system that will result in no space savings whatsoever.
>
> This is rather the Pigeonhole Principle that guarantees this.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Limitations


Ah, thank you for the more specific pointer--a good read, though slightly
less entertaining than Hofstadter.  ^_^

Matt