Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s

Does no one remember EGP? ASNs are MUCH older than BGP. And we were using BGPv3 prior to the existence of V4. We used BGPv4 back in the days when Tony Li would chastise us for reporting a bug in a 10 day old Cisco build saying that we could not expect BGPv4 code over a week old to work. He felt that we should deploy new code daily.

The big push was to have v4 available before the old PRDB was frozen by Merit/NSFnet. (And, who remembers the PRDB?) --

I caught the trailing edge of V3. I remember announcing 129 prefixes to Sprintlink, one for our B, and 128 for our /17 from C-space :)