Level3 Question

Sat Nov 12 05:10:47 UTC 2005

On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:

> I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other
> things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing
> it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out there that
> runs BGP won't work anymore and have to be updated. This is arguably a
> good thing. Also remember that this is still some time away. Getting
> ever closer, but still a future event.

Given the presentation at the last NANOG, the "old" routers running  
16-bit code / hardware / ASICs can just keep going for a very long time.

Or did I miss some important point?

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TTFN,
patrick