try a little harder - http://psg.com/~randy/010809.ptomaine.pdf Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774 Cell: (541) 912-7998 5419127998@mobile.att.net On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
At 04:31 PM 9/27/2001 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
I don't think anyone has ever claimed (Randy included) that filtering out long prefixes never hurts performance /to those long prefixes/. Just that the usage of those long prefixes is small, the effect is often small, and the NET effect (i.e. on performance to all prefixes) is often improved, AND the 'public good' effect, in terms of encouraging CIDR and discouraging disaggregation has benefits for the global routing table, for everybody, in terms of reduction of cost (nice statistical demonstration at last IETF Ptomaine session - please refer to 'belling the cat' problem).
Are you going to present statistical data to the contrary?
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Sorry. :(
randy
-- TTFN, patrick