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.-)
-- Per
I 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/