[118029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 32-bit AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Oct 9 12:14:05 2009
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ACF5F65.70902@kl.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:13:13 -0400
To: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 9, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
> Greg Hankins wrote:
>
>> We also started a Wiki with content based on the presentation that
>> has
>> more updated information, including a current list of vendor support.
>> If you see a vendor missing, let us know and we can update the list.
>> Or better yet, create an account and add some content yourself :-).
>> http://as4.cluepon.net/index.php/Main_Page
>
> While it's good to see support _finally_ in 2.2SX, I still don't see
> it
> in 12.2SR (for rsp720). It's almost like Cisco has no idea how
> many of these things are actually used on the Internet.
One can use the 23456 method in the interim, but I'd rather see
everyone deploy 4-byte code. There have already been cases already of
people putting 23456 in an as4_path inappropriately.
- Jared
