Re: Redundant AS's

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:56:06PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 21/03/2009 16:36, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> >     er... 'parm me sir, but aren't -all- ASNs 4 bytes?
> >
> >     i mean, for lo these many years we cheated and only
> >     used the first two bytes...  but the spec always
> >     called out four bytes.
>
> There seems to be a bug in my router:
>
> > router(config)#router bgp 196641
> >                               ^
> > % Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
> >
> > router(config)#
>
> Do you know of anyone I could call who can fix this?
>
> Nick


        your using the wrong protocol.. :)
        or the wrong version of a vendors code.
        try EGP and you should be fine w/ 4byte ASNs.

--bill