On Tue, 8 May 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
if you have a /16 why would it be broken down to /24? i would assume the only reason you advertise /24 is because that is the size of your assignment from the NIC, in which case you cannot advertise the /16.
if you do own the /16 then yes of course you can advertise it.
Stephen, you neglected to look at the big picture. The "organization" has the /16 but has sites spread out all over the planet and has assigned /24's to them. Additionally, they connect into the global net via diverse providers.
<snip> Site BGP Advertisement to ISP Amsterdam 169.61.201.0/24 AMSISP Austin 169.61.111.0/24 Genuity & Internap SanFran 169.61.119.0/24 Genuity & Internap Tokyo 169.61.202.0/24 TOKISP Sydney 169.61.156.0/24 SYDISP
--- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc