Do all service providers accept /24's via BGP?

Mar 07, 2007 3 Replies

We have recently acquired a /24 from APNIC and are advertising this range with BGP via two ISP's.



We configured BGP between ISP1 twelve days ago and ISP2 seven days ago. Our second ISP casualy mentioned after the BGP configuration, despite several meetings beforehand, that not all service providers and organizations accept /24 prefixes into their BGP tables.



This would appear to be true - out of the five websites that I visit daily, two are not accessable when I translate myself using an IP from our /24 range.



Has anyone else come across this problem?



At the moment the fix appears to be to ask APNIC for a /22 which is a complete waste of address space.....



James



In my experience *most* ISP's will accept a /24 prefix but I beleive that some will not. If you have only a /24 then you run the risk of routing problems. Seems silly I know but given the increase in size of the global BGP routing table some ISP's will take measures to reduce it whereever possible.

Chris.

Thanks.

Do you have any idea what prefix is "safe"?

Depends on the ISP. Everyone's policy is different.

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