[94174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4 Byte AS tested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antti Louko)
Thu Jan 11 08:33:47 2007
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:31:39 +0200
From: Antti Louko <alo-nanog@louko.com>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45A636C5.5080501@nipper.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Arnold Nipper wrote:
> On 11.01.2007 10:14 Geoff Huston wrote
>> George Michaelson, Randy Bush and myself have successfully tested the
>> implementation of 4Byte AS BGP on a public Internet transit. ...
> Great news! Congratulations!
>> (Patched versions of openbgpd to include 4-byte AS support can be
>> found at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/bgpd/)
> A Quagga patch is available from http://quagga.ncc.eurodata.de/
This is especially good news as there are two independent open source
BPG implementations supporting this!
My question:
How robust these BGP programs are? are they used and how widely in
production use? I am askint this because I may be asked to provide
alternatives to commercial routers in certain sites which should be
doable in BW sense, at least. Normal PC can handle several 1G ethernet
connections without a problem.
