Subject: [Idr] A question on longest match
From: "john smith" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:49:42 +0000
List-Id: Inter-Domain Routing <idr.ietf.org>

Hello,

Is there any specific reason why the BGP algorithm relies on the longest 
match paradigm?

Is there any reason why one cannot simply propogate the "range of addresses" 
and use different metrics?
For example one could say "address numbers 100000 - 212123 are here and 
212124 - 312127 are there?

Would this not lead to considerable reduction of the size of the forwarding 
table?

--
(&)
Little John.

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