> I'm just wondering what technologically happened to make universal /24 advertisements fine. I assume it's just that routers got better. Routers had to get be

> I'm just wondering what technologically happened to make universal /24 advertisements fine. I assume it's just that routers got better. Routers had to get better (more tcam capacity) because there wasn't much choice. Nobody wants to run two border routers each with the table for half the /8s or something terrible like that. And you really can't aggregate /24 announcements when consecutive addresses are unrelated.