Jonathan, It is not safe to assume that. Verio, amongst others, still filters at ARIN allocation boundaries. Also, those trying to subnet old class B address blocks, will have significant problems, even at the /17 level. If you have upstream(s) willing to advertise aggregates for you, that's the best way to handle this problem in a discontiguous network. - Dan Golding NetRail, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Jonathan Disher Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 2:43 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Filtering levels (was RE: multi-homing without the BGP (was RE: Packet Loss)) On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Daniel Golding wrote:
advertise blocks smaller than a /20 to each other (/24 is a more normal filtering level these days). Also ensure that whichever of the upstreams
Is it safe to assume[*] that an announced /23 will not be filtered by any major (or even the minor) backbones? We just got our ARIN allocation (and I won't go into that, the lag time was all my fault), and I'm currently planning allocation for some remote offices and a couple of hosted buildouts. I'm hoping to not have to announce anything larger than a /23 from any one site unless necessary. -j [*] - It's never safe to assume anything internet related; relatively speaking, is it safe... -Jonathan Disher -Systems and Network Engineer, Web Operations -Internet Pictures Corporation, Palo Alto, CA -[v] (650) 388-0497 | [p] (877) 446-9311 | [e] jdisher@eng.ipix.com