On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Carlos Friacas wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Hi,
ASNV6, no clue... but 32-bit ASN are already prepared, at least in the registry world.
It was just a joke, since the AS is getting high up there in the 2 byte range (2/3's of the available ones down I think) and was implying that moving to 4 byte would be as fast/efficient/complete as going to IPV6 (Not...)
That's actually something funny...... We'll probably run out of v4 addresses sooner than 2 byte ASN, however, globally it seems more pieces of the puzzle are in place for the latter "revolution".
I doubt most routers are 4 byte ASN aware, but the difference is no 'revolution' is required as 4 byte is designed to cross silently across any 2 byte only routers without needing any upgrade by nature of BGPv4s flexibility Steve