On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Karuppiah, Ettikan Kandasamy wrote:
> Hi,
> Referring to the above RFC(2374);
> The aim of Aggregatable addressing is to simplify routing compared to
> current CIDR, at each level. Does it dictates, that routers at each level
> will have entries only for the specified prefixes? For example, long-haul
> providers backbone router has entries of only /16 prefix route entries and
> NLA1 router's will have /48 prefix entry, etc. Or mix of different prefix
> sizes are allowed to be added at the routing table regardless of it's level!
>
> What about 'host-route' advertisement?
The prefixes can be of variable length, at least internally.
I'd filter out all routes more specific than /35.
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