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Re: multi-homing fixes

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Fri Aug 24 22:31:27 2001 
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:52:31PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
> > timeframe needed for deployment of software to support 4 byte AS numbers.
> 
> I have thought about a proposal, and I guess it's time to make it
> public.  I know of several up-sides and down-sides to this already,
> but I won't list them for now to stimulate discussion.

	There is at least a Internet Draft on the subject now.
	One could lean on vendor of choice today and ask for them.

> Rather than allocate AS numbers as we do today, why not make an AS
> simply be a globally unique 32 bit number, and establish a convention
> that AS numbers must come from a customer's netblock?  That is, if
> I'm assigned 10.0.0.0/24, I could pick 10.0.0.1 as my "AS" number
> (or 10.0.0.37 for that matter) and I just start announcing it.

	See early IPv6, ISIS, etc for more on this tactic.

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> Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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