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

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:39:53PM -0500, 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. :)

They have already done it for XR and Nexus, so they know how to do it.

(Yes, I'm oversimplifying.  But then, if they would consider it a major
selling point, instead of an "operational requirement for their customers", 
it would have happened years ago.)

gert

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