[112863] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Mar 23 07:59:58 2009
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:59:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0903222134230.15340@peregrin.local> (Lyndon
Nerenberg's message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:35:01 -0700 (PDT)")
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> writes:
>> 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?
16-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-11 or DG Nova, not 36-bit "word"
in the sense of a Univac-1100 or DECSYSTEM-20. Be glad that it wasn't
a 12-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-8.
(page 33, same RFC)
-r
