[143424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP support for use of 4-byte ASNs in peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hare)
Tue Aug 9 12:16:46 2011
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:15:51 -0500
From: Michael Hare <michael.hare@doit.wisc.edu>
In-reply-to: <4E415467.3040009@foobar.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Granted I've never worked outside academia but the me3400 is otherwise a
cost effective gig-e demarc for very simple bgp multihoming.
They have made a strategic decision to not implement a simple software
update support RFC4893 [it has been 4 years] and to set an artificial
price point on entry. Fine, that is their choice. There are other
vendors offering 4 byte ASN in simliar products at or near this price
point and we'll probably have to move to them.
-Michael
On 8/9/2011 10:38 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 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
>
>
