Datapath.io: Provider-Independent Elastic IP Addresses

Re:Datapath.io: Provider-Independent Elastic IP Addresses by chrisfarms on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:26PM (#8963973)

I assume this is BGP routing as a service (which sounds cool).

But, would this not break the internet if everyone used it? routing individual IPs (rather than large blocks) sounds like it would end in chaos?

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Re:Datapath.io: Provider-Independent Elastic IP Addresses by bdonlan on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:32PM (#8964358)

In general, most ISPs will drop any routes more specific than a /24. Presumably datapath has negotiated with some specific providers to allow /32s; it's up to that ISP to scale their routers to handle it; other ISPs will only see the /24 aggregate.

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