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Sprint is the worst for pre-fix filtering for all but their own customers. I recently went through this with my old /24. It's still SWIP'd to MHSC but I can't use it. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: How many ISPs are out there? > > > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > > some exceptions <Qwest?>) use BGP either. Then there is the > old route > > pre-fixing problem. Not many ISPs, smaller than /19, are > going to be doing > > effective ASN's either. > > I would take issue with the assertion that you need a /19 or > larger to "be > doing effective ASNs". My understanding is that as long as you get a > block from former class C or "the swamp", you should be visible > everywhere. We recently requested, and got a /21 from 65/8 > from Sprint. > A phone call and some pleading got them to change that to > 208.8.16.0/21 > > AFAIK, that's reachable everywhere from AS19975 If that's > *not* correct, > I'd sure like to know... > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > [email protected] > http://3.am > ============================================================== > =========== >
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