At 8:48 AM -0700 4/25/00, Bill Manning wrote:
and this is different from only carrying the 253 usable /8 prefixes in
IPv4 how?
The set of customers who have addresses under a given IPv4 /8 prefix greater
than 127 do not all aggregate into a single topological subregion (e.g., a
single ISP), and therefore more granular routes must be widely disseminated
to make those customers reachable. That's the difference.
Steve