[c-nsp] 4 Byte AS implementation on Cisco Routers

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:07:36PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> If you have a 32bit ASN yourself, then you're doomed.  (You could buy
> a Vendor J router, they have implemented it on time... - it's not like
> "it's especially hard", or "cisco has not been told that the ASN clock 
> is ticking" or even "Cisco folks have taken part in writing the relevant 
> 32-bit RFC").

Rest assured that updating the festering piece of crap that is IOS to 
change every data structure that holds ASNs and every piece of code that 
tched them (think as-path, regexp, show/cli changes for the unbelievably 
retarded #.# syntax, etc), not to mention all the backwards compatibility 
code and testing, is especially hard. :)

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