[140513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Thu May 12 17:59:01 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110512213707.2FF721CC2C@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:58:09 -0400
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> Does no one remember EGP? ASNs are MUCH older than BGP. And we were
> using BGPv3 prior to the existence of V4. We used BGPv4 back in the days
> when Tony Li would chastise us for reporting a bug in a 10 day old Cisco
> build saying that we could not expect BGPv4 code over a week old to
> work. He felt that we should deploy new code daily.
>
> The big push was to have v4 available before the old PRDB was frozen by
> Merit/NSFnet. (And, who remembers the PRDB?)
> --
>
I caught the trailing edge of V3. I remember announcing 129 prefixes to
Sprintlink, one for our B, and 128 for our /17 from C-space :)
