29 Nov
2004
29 Nov
'04
6:27 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:11 +0100, Cliff Albert wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
Well, how many AS numbers would you like to give out? 30000 in 20 years? 100k a year? A million in a month? 32 bits will then give you 2863 millennia, 429 centuries or 357 years, respectively.
ASN exhaustion is IMHO just a symptom of the real problem. Enlarging the ASN space does not cure the disease, just makes it worse.
And this is exactly my point.
Also, with 32bit ASN's, also expect upto 2^32 routes in your routing table when each and every ASN would at least send 1 route and of course there will be ASN's sending multiple routes. 32bits ASN would thus just mean the end of BGP... Greets, Jeroen