RE: Re: BGP & multihoming

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 20:32:18 GMT-3


At 3:57 PM -0500 11/11/02, Liban.Mohamed@mail.sprint.com wrote:
>The only provider that is different than the rest of the providers is
>Verio, you have to announce /20. but everyOne else accept /24 as the
>being the smallest, which make sense the reason of running BGP is
>minimize the routing table,
>

Maybe marginally on topic, but the pure size of the global routing
table is less the limitation on global routing as is the rate of
flapping and the speed of propagating updates. Aggregation helps hide
flaps and cause less information to be propagated.



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