The Cidr Report

Tli asked:

> Exercise for the reader: If prefixes of length F and longer are filtered,
> and a domain has a prefix of length N, how many prefixes can they propagate
> into the backbone? How many before people start proxy aggregating them?

A/ (2 ** F) - 1. [assuming nobody imposes exact-match prefix filters]

B/ When we can easily do:

  "router bgp N
         proxy-aggregate route-map Lazy-Types

I may be misunderstanding, but does this (proposed) config statement
automaticly suppress (aggregate) any prefixes that are exactly the
same as another prefix except in the length? For example given

128.8.0.0/16
128.8.0.0/24
128.8.1.0/24

the last two would not be propogated? That would be cool!

Erik