You can use aggregate
/generated routes which require more specific contributing routes to become 
active, and then only advertise the protocol aggregate routes to your 
downstream nodes that have smaller tables, however you still need to create the 
aggregates which is a manual process.

You can get pretty creative however, in your definition of aggregates, so that 
they can encompass a large number of specifics - for example, if your 
downstream node only supported a FIB of a few routes, you could create 2 
aggregates on the upstream node, perhaps 0/1 and 128/1.  This is an extreme 
example, but you get the idea.

As far as I know, there are no ways to automatically summarize along the lines 
of what you are getting at because routers aren't intelligent enough to 
determine what prefix masks to use for summarization without user input.

What you would need to accomplish what you are describing is some way to tell 
the device that you want to summarize all the routing information into x number 
of prefixes, and then have the router automatically compute the best summaries 
where routing information overlaps and can be consolidated into a single 
prefix/mask combination.

Stefan Fouant
JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI
Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks

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On Oct 25, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Brad Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there any tricks to auto-summarize the contents of a RIB where the 
> tributary routes are not originated locally?
> 
> Example:
> Input routes:
> prefix: 1.0.0.0/16, next-hop: 5.5.5.5
> prefix: 1.0.1.0/16, next-hop: 5.5.5.5
> prefix: 1.0.2.0/16, next-hop: 4.4.4.4
> prefix: 1.0.3.0/16, next-hop: 5.5.5.5
> 
> Consolidated, Installed routes:
> prefix: 1.0.0.0/14, next-hop: 5.5.5.5
> prefix: 1.0.2.0/16, next-hop: 4.4.4.4
> 
> Basically a way to consolidate total number of prefixes entering the FIB.
> 
> If such a thing existed we could feed non-Juniper, TCAM-based routers a 
> smaller table but still maintain the advantages of best path, hot potato 
> routing.
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