4 Byte AS tested

Thu Jan 11 13:08:21 UTC 2007

On 11.01.2007 10:14 Geoff Huston wrote

> George Michaelson, Randy Bush and myself have successfully tested the
> implementation of 4Byte AS BGP on a public Internet transit. The 
> above BGP RIB snapshot was taken at a 4Byte BGP speaker in North 
> America, showing a transit path across AS 1221, AS 4637, AS 1239 and
> AS 3130 , with correct reconstruction of the originating AS at the 
> other (4Byte AS) end.
> 

Great news! Congratulations!

> (Patched versions of openbgpd to include 4-byte AS support can be 
> found at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/bgpd/)
> 

A Quagga patch is available from http://quagga.ncc.eurodata.de/

Which vendor is already shipping ASN32 capable bgp code?

Arnold
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Arnold Nipper, AN45