4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

Tue Aug 23 11:24:03 UTC 2005

Paul Jakma wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the 
>> last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such 
>> that it will intercept the eBGP traffic.
> 
> Ok. So that's a "not important" then.
> 
> I'm interested in operational use of any kind of passive BGP 'reader' 
> btw - not just ethereal/tcpdump. (Just to make it obvious ;) ).

IMO it is very important to have the ability to listen into a BGP
stream at any point in time and have the reader decode the updates/
withdrawls starting from the next message boundary.

-- 
Andre