[112861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Mon Mar 23 00:35:21 2009
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <864oxlj5zf.fsf@seastrom.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Autonomous systems will be assigned 16-bit identification
> numbers (in much the same ways as network and protocol numbers
> are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains one word
> for this number.
Was that a 36-bit word?
--lyndon
I think 3B2 code deserves its own place in hell. Poring over the
ESS#5 code, someone found that there were lots of strcmp(p, "f(")
== 0 checks (I may have gotten the exact string wrong but it's
close). It took us a while to figure out why. Apparently, location
0 on the 3b had the 3 bytes 'f' '(' '\0', someone noticed that when
programs blew up they were pointing to "f(", and the worlds most
amazing kludge for detecting nil pointers was born.
-- Dave Presotto
