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Re: Level3 Question
From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web () typo org>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:27:58 -0700
Okay, so as people pointed out, I forgot that hardware engineers like to make assumptions about software for the sake of efficiency in ASICs and the like. So add a few exponents of pain. Still shouldn't be *all* that bad I wouldn't think. On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:19:45PM -0700, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:41:49PM +0000, Per Gregers Bilse wrote:On Nov 11, 1:14pm tony.li () tony li wrote:The only way to get 32-bit AS number support deployed is to run out of AS numbers in the 16 bit space.Exactly. - When will the Internet deploy X? - Just before it's too late. How many people on this list remember the transition from BGP3 to BGP4 and CIDR? This was, uhh, about 12 years ago. Before that there was an EGP to BGP transition, but that was less of an issue. But history will repeat itself. Not that I see any great evil in that -- people are always busy, have always been. It's a case of which priorities are most pressing, so, indeed, yes, the only way is to run out of the existing resource. Likewise for whatever will provide more address space.-) -- PerI 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. --- Wayne Bouchard web () typo org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
--- Wayne Bouchard web () typo org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
Current thread:
- Re: Level3 Question Tony Li (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Per Gregers Bilse (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question bmanning (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Per Gregers Bilse (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Wayne E. Bouchard (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Wayne E. Bouchard (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Lincoln Dale (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Geoff Huston (Nov 13)
- Re: Level3 Question bmanning (Nov 11)
- Re: Level3 Question Per Gregers Bilse (Nov 11)
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- RE: Level3 Question Susan Hares (Nov 12)