multi-homing fixes
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Sat Aug 25 02:58:34 UTC 2001
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:52:31PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
> > timeframe needed for deployment of software to support 4 byte AS numbers.
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> I have thought about a proposal, and I guess it's time to make it
> public. I know of several up-sides and down-sides to this already,
> but I won't list them for now to stimulate discussion.
There is at least a Internet Draft on the subject now.
One could lean on vendor of choice today and ask for them.
> Rather than allocate AS numbers as we do today, why not make an AS
> simply be a globally unique 32 bit number, and establish a convention
> that AS numbers must come from a customer's netblock? That is, if
> I'm assigned 10.0.0.0/24, I could pick 10.0.0.1 as my "AS" number
> (or 10.0.0.37 for that matter) and I just start announcing it.
See early IPv6, ISIS, etc for more on this tactic.
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org
> Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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