[140515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu May 12 18:43:04 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=k3sE99f2=Z8paBiHZzGEcN1uupQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:43:00 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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. =A0I remember announcing 129 prefixes t=
o
> Sprintlink, one for our B, and 128 for our /17 from C-space :)
Flashbacks to 1993-4 all over again.
--=20
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
