Redundant AS's

Mon Mar 23 02:45:22 UTC 2009

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:56:06PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 21/03/2009 16:36, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >	er... 'parm me sir, but aren't -all- ASNs 4 bytes?
> >
> >	i mean, for lo these many years we cheated and only
> >	used the first two bytes...  but the spec always
> >	called out four bytes.
> 
> There seems to be a bug in my router:
> 
> >router(config)#router bgp 196641
> >                               ^
> >% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
> >
> >router(config)#
> 
> Do you know of anyone I could call who can fix this?
> 
> Nick


	your using the wrong protocol.. :)
	or the wrong version of a vendors code.
	try EGP and you should be fine w/ 4byte ASNs.

--bill