[83732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Oppermann)
Tue Aug 23 07:24:29 2005
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:24:03 +0200
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508231209410.5291@sheen.jakma.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the
>> last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such
>> that it will intercept the eBGP traffic.
>
> Ok. So that's a "not important" then.
>
> I'm interested in operational use of any kind of passive BGP 'reader'
> btw - not just ethereal/tcpdump. (Just to make it obvious ;) ).
IMO it is very important to have the ability to listen into a BGP
stream at any point in time and have the reader decode the updates/
withdrawls starting from the next message boundary.
--
Andre
