aads renumbering rumor and implications

Holdon, i don't even see the need for that; if you traceroute out, the
packets will cross the exchange irregardless of whether you're announcing
it to your customers, and a message of TTL exceeded will be generated
from the exchange's address.. The important question is, should they
be globally UNIQUE for troubleshooting purposes? I think so.

When not advertising exchange point address space, the conditions with
respect to traceroute are much the same as that of RFC 1918 address
space; you can traceroute *through* it and get reports of TTL exceeded
from source addresses that you cannot reach as a destination. No big
deal to some, major diagnosis headache to others. I'd argue in favor
of reducing diagnosis headaches ... and I *hate* it when I can't
traceroute to points in the interior of providers who use RFC 1918
addresses internally. :slight_smile:

If the shared L2 media of an exchange point fabric did *not* have a
shared L3 address prefix as Alan Hannan noted earlier, where (as Alan
said) one party of a bi-lat coughed up a /30, then the reachability of
said prefix could be left to the parties to the bi-lat. Modern
equipment should be able to handle the quantity of secondary/alias
addresses needed to deal with number of /30s required to uniquely
number each bi-lat, no?

Stephen

Modern equipment should be able to handle the quantity of secondary/alias
addresses needed to deal with number of /30s required to uniquely number
each bi-lat, no?

do i want to find out if ciscos and junipers can handle a hundred+ secondary
addresses? and do we want to maintain such configurations??

randy

> Modern equipment should be able to handle the quantity of secondary/alias
> addresses needed to deal with number of /30s required to uniquely number
> each bi-lat, no?

do i want to find out if ciscos and junipers can handle a hundred+ secondary
addresses? and do we want to maintain such configurations??

  it is odd to see you ask questions about yourself.

  it is well known that modern routers can easily maintain logical
  interfaces in excess of 300.

  this should not be an issue.

  what you want to do is up to you, what one can do is of
  interesting discussion on this mailing list.

  -alan