DataXchange is not filtering by prefix, we do occasionally filter out someone who is ping bombing or something, or a cyberpromo site. My routers seem to be able to handle the full table. How many entries are removed by this prefix filtering anyway? Does anyone have a handle on that? Looking at the weekly automated report of the possible gains by aggregating, it apprears to me that a concerted effort by a dozen or so of the top names could reduce the number of table rows by a considerable amount. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DataXchange sales: 800-863-1550 http://www.dx.net Network Operations Center: 703-903-7412 -or- 888-903-7412 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Phil Howard wrote:
Larry Vaden writes...
Does Congress need to pass "must carry" legislation similar to the "any willing provider" medical legislation? IMHO, it would be better that some old dogmas and implementations die and be replaced with efficient, robust code and a rather less limiting view of the future.
Consider the following problem.
Suppose that IP space were not a problem. When IPv6 comes up all around, it certainly won't be then. You can have and waste all the IP space you could imagine, since we'll be numbering every atom in the known universe.
And suppose we have ASNs a plenty.
Would Sprint, Digex, and AGIS still be trying to cut out so many routes?
Are any other ISPs doing this filtering?
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