[50489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: redundancy [was: something about arrogance]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Evans)
Tue Jul 30 20:34:24 2002
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:32:49 +0100 (BST)
From: Patrick Evans <pre@PRE.ORG>
To: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200207310019.RAA05167@ndk.shankland.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jim Shankland wrote:
> Patrick Evans <pre@PRE.ORG> writes:
>
> > My first project, if network availability were a key issue, within any
> > organisation would be to a) obtain [an AS number] and b) make use of
> > it.
>
> Heh. How many bits in an AS number, again?
>
*grin*
That's a problem with the underlying protocol. I get paid to run
operational networks, not bleat endlessly about "how much work would
it *really* take to implement 24bit AS numbers?" :)
Crying about protocol deficiencies is a distant second to keeping a
business up and running these days.
--
Patrick Evans, allegedly
Email: pre@pre.org
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