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

[Rodney Dunn]

It's called "lfep". Late feature exception process.

btw, I've got a call to outline some of the 4 byte ASN stuff
with the folks running 12.0S. Especially regarding 75xx, 10720, etc.
support along with GRPB's.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:04:05AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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