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Re: ISP support for use of 4-byte ASNs in peering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Aug 9 11:38:52 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:38:15 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4E4147F4.7050606@doit.wisc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 09/08/2011 15:45, Michael Hare wrote:
> While attempting to focus on ISPs there is still [unbelievably] a vendor
> support issue.  You may consider this a procurement failure, but the fact
> remains that some products [Cisco me3400e] have yet to implement support.

the me3400 is a metro core ethernet switch with L3 extensions.  It's not
intended as a border router.  If you use the wrong tool for the job...

Nick



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