Re: [44net] 44net problems - was: 44net cool toys

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:45:00 +1300, Steve Wright stevewrightnz@gmail.com wrote:

Sysadmins on the portal are reluctant to issue /24s, when there's lots and lots available.

There are precisely 256 /24's in each coordinator's block, -2 for broadcasts and (initially) only 64 of them were assignable by the coordinators directly. How many hams are in your area? Do they all actually need a /24? When distributed across a populated region, whole /24's can become a commodity. Each /24 assignee effectively becomes a sub-coordinator.

I regard the granularity of the automatic routing protocols to be a defect when it comes to masking for blocks smaller than /24.