[PDB User] "ipv4 prefixes" / "ipv6 prefixes" semantics

Budiwijaya bbuuddiiww at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 09:47:12 PDT 2017


Yep, I read it as Maximum Prefix recommendation.
The number also used by SIX [1] to set as maximum-prefix in their route-servers

Thank you
Budiwijaya

[1] https://www.seattleix.net/participants/

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote:
> To answer my own question:
>
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:40:47AM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
>> If we look at a record like https://peeringdb.com/net/1045, what do the
>> values behind "IPv4 Prefixes" (250000) and "IPv6 prefixes" (25000)
>> actually mean?
>
> I'd like it to mean "This is what NTT generally recommends as the
> maximum prefix limit on EBGP sessions where you expect NTT to announce
> their customer cone", so that the listed values can be used verbatim in
> provisioning systems.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
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