Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

[Paul Jakma <paul () clubi ie>]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after 
> about six months. That means that any implementations will be based 
> on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many 
> ways.

Well, maybe that was a misunderstanding of IETF process of mine. But 
AIUI, it's intended to progress towards proposed standard, and 
getting implementations is part of that, in some fashion.

The draft has been kept active by the IDR since 2001 btw.

> 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 ;) ).

regards,
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