[86631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Nov 12 00:11:24 2005
In-Reply-To: <20051111221945.GA91691@typo.org>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:10:47 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
> I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other
> things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing
> it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out there that
> runs BGP won't work anymore and have to be updated. This is arguably a
> good thing. Also remember that this is still some time away. Getting
> ever closer, but still a future event.
Given the presentation at the last NANOG, the "old" routers running
16-bit code / hardware / ASICs can just keep going for a very long time.
Or did I miss some important point?
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TTFN,
patrick
