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

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> 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. :)

The most interesting thing is that it seems it'll be available in 
patch rebuilds of 12.0(32)S and 12.0(33)S. That's kind of special, I 
wouldn't have expected this kind of functionality show up in a patch 
rebuild.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se