Re: [44net] Gateways with external address in net-44

I’m a network admin for the 44.24.240.0/20 network using the 44.24.221.1 gateway. Marius is exactly correct. 44.24.221.1 is NOT in the encap and is directly BGP announced. And the comments that this will cause problems for those who route all of 44/8 to USCD are correct. We have decided that for our own best interests (we can announce 44.24.221.1 at multiple peers, and thus have highly available tunnel endpoints for all who wish to connect), and in what we believe pushes forward progress for the network as a whole, this is our best option. A blanket route to UCSD for 44/8 is pretty shortsighted, and ignores all users (including ourselves) that announce via BGP, and limits what users can do for highly available gateways. If a “reverse” list of users who announce via BGP and use 44/net addresses as tunnel endpoints would help with getting these routing setups better situated so traffic doesn’t end up lost in the loop, then I would be pleased to assist in it’s creation. Ideally, this would be put in place at UCSD itself, so that individual users could still route via UCSD, and UCSD would take care of sending it along to the endpoint. (Us or someone else) Nigel K7NVH