Robert:
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 10:57:25 PDT From: hoodr@netcom.com (Robert Hood) To: Jessica Yu <jyy@merit.edu> CC: epg@merit.edu, bgpd@merit.edu, regional-techs@merit.edu
According to NSF/ANSNET data, 23 aggregates ALONG with its covered 898 spe cific routes are co-exist in the routing table now. If the ASs withdraws all th ese more specific routes, the routing table could be reduced by 898. Given the urg ent need of reduce the routing table size, would these ASs withdraw those spec ific routes as soon as possible?
I tried. They told me that the forms and policy for removing more specific routes were not in place yet, and that there would be an announcem ent about it in a week or so. (I tried to remove 150 routes). I've got a few hundred more to do next week.
Well... Regionals/mid-levels have always been able to delete net announcements, but the CIDR deployment raised the same sort of issue which had been raised previously when "silent nets" had been discussed: how about a way of deleting nets from the routing configuration files without removing the information from the PRDB, since we might reconfigure more-specific information soon? A normal delete is fine, and we are [read: "I am" ;-) ] finishing the implementation of the use of a "no configure" flag in the file generation (it'll be done for next Mon/Tues's config run). If you'd like to have your original 150 nets removed by hand before Tues. AM, please send them and I'll take care of it; looking at the current situation, it's probably a good thing to do.
-- Robert Hood hoodr@netcom.com 1-408-983-1510 System/Network Administrator for NETCOM On-line Communications Services, I nc.
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