Re: MikroTik strikes again ?

[Bret Clark <bclark () spectraaccess com>]

Tim Warnock wrote:
> > Adrian M wrote:
> >     
> > > MikroTik strikes again ?
> > >
> > > %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path ... 39412 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625
> > > 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625 39625
> > >       
> > From: Bret Clark [mailto:bclark () spectraaccess com]
> > Sent: Monday, 3 May 2010 8:26 PM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: MikroTik strikes again ?
> >
> > Uhm....okay...but why does anyone prepend their ASN that much? Are you
> > saying the Mikrotik did that on purpose?
> >
> >     
>
> MikroTik asks for an amount of prepends rather than what ASN to prepend
> with.
>
> There was a bug in an old version that would modulus the ASN with 256 and
> prepend that many times.
>
> In this case 39625 modulo 256 = 201 prepends.
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Yeah...guess I see why that would be a problem.