How big a network is routed these days?

Hello, my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? regards, JS

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? /24 Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, John Smith wrote: my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? A /24 is

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. I mean, I can see the reason for smaller allocations where an LIR routes and aggregates both but these are rare and probably legacy examples. Changing the allocation policy such

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:19 PM, David Freedman wrote: I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. In the 2002-3 micro-assignment policy, the RIR's assign a minimum of a /22. As far as I know, all of the PI /24's are

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

On 17-Jan-2007, at 12:43, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:19 PM, David Freedman wrote: I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. In the 2002-3 micro-assignment policy, the RIR's assign a minimum of a

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

4.3.2.1 Single Connection The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN to end- users is a /20. [...] 4.3.2.2 Multihomed Connection For end-users who demonstrate an intent to announce the requested space in a multihomed fashion, the minimum block of IP address space assigned is

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

On 17-Jan-2007, at 18:36, Owen DeLong wrote: Actually, generally, the expectation under 4.4 is that the addresses will not be advertised at all for the most part, since, generally, there's no need to advertise the route to the exchange point, itself, into the global routing table. 4.4