[AusNOG] AS 4byte support in .au

[Skeeve Stevens]

Apparently Cisco now support 4byte ASN's

Last updated: April 2009 - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6554/ps6599/data_sheet_C78-521821.html

We're just investigating what 12.4T and 12.2SRD versions 4byte ASN's and will lab it up on in house equipment soon.

...Skeeve



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim Warnock
> Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 10:20 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AS 4byte support in .au
>
> > Not if your upstream can't put a 4byte AS in their BGP config to you
> I am
> guessing.
>
> You can do things like peer with your customer using AS23456, but
> that's
> just evil.
>
> The issue I see so far from 32bit ASNs are lack of support from our
> favourite vendor in versions people would be comfortable running.
>
> http://www.apricot.net/apricot2009/images/lecture_files/apricot-2008-
> 32-bit-
> asn.pdf
> (Page 15) has a list of vendors and their versions required for
> support.
>
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