again, this has nothing to do with cisco this has to do with cutting people off the Internet - other people. don't worry about PSI meeting "the Swedish deadline" - no problemo Marty

it would have been a reasonable approach

had cisco and/or other vendors had a standard release support BGP4 withou

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bugs 12 months ago

and had you given 12 months notice

C'mon Marty, wake up and smell the kimchi.

The writing has been on the wall since RFC 1338 (Supernetting) was published almost two years ago, since shortly after that is when the CIDR addressing plan first started being implemented.

cisco and the other router vendors have gone out of their way to support the CIDR effort, having integrated CIDR support into the earliest possible releas

e

of their code.

CIDR, default, or die - it may not be the law, but it is reality.

--Vince