<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">McTim, <br><br>I still dont understand the problem...u say current minimum allocation from AfriNIC is a /22 while typically anycast service prodivers want to only use a /24? What is wrong with getting the /22 and using the /24 portion or better still the full /22?<br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br><br>Well, typically Anycast uses one address, but routes the entire /24. If an Anycast service provider got a /22 and only used 4 addresses, that would mean 1020 go unused, but all /24's are routed. It's more wasteful than letting them "waste" 254 IPs.<br>
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<br>The other challenge you cite is underutilization - when the service provider attempts to get more space? But then why cant the service provider not utilize the full /22 block for anycast services?</td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"> Am thinking /22 gives you 2^10 (1,024 hosts) while /24 gives u 2^8 (256 hosts) - am not understanding what would stop the anycast service provider from making full use of the 1,024 hosts.<br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br><br>above. <br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>