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Re: Newbie Question about addressing impacts



Ideally, in an Internet architecture that we don't have today, there would be N prefixes, one per ISP. However, the host
portion of the locator would be a constant regardless of prefix. The IGP need not know about the external prefixes, so there's
no issue there.

Good point.

But this implies modifying IGPs, right?



Not seriously. You would be modifying them to carry around a constant local portion of the address and ignore the "global"
prefix. Simply picking a single constant prefix for use internally would suffice.


Tony