[140522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu May 12 19:49:00 2011
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
In-Reply-To: <20110512213707.2FF721CC2C@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:47:54 -0700
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 12, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Oberman 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.
To be fair, that was for folks on the isp-geeks mailing list, who were =
effectively doing alpha test with me. I was fixing about 1 significant =
bug per day and doing at least one release per day. 10 day old code was =
missing at least 10 fixes... ;-) And that was BGP3. BGP4 was the =
next developer.
Regards,
Tony
