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Okay, so as people pointed out, I forgot that hardware engineers like to make assumptions about software for the sake of efficiency in ASICs and the like. So add a few exponents of pain. Still shouldn't be *all* that bad I wouldn't think. On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:19:45PM -0700, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:41:49PM +0000, Per Gregers Bilse wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 1:14pm [email protected] wrote: > > > The only way to get 32-bit AS number support deployed is to run out > > > of AS numbers in > > > the 16 bit space. > > > > Exactly. > > > > - When will the Internet deploy X? > > > > - Just before it's too late. > > > > How many people on this list remember the transition from BGP3 to > > BGP4 and CIDR? This was, uhh, about 12 years ago. Before that there > > was an EGP to BGP transition, but that was less of an issue. > > > > But history will repeat itself. Not that I see any great evil in that -- > > people are always busy, have always been. It's a case of which priorities > > are most pressing, so, indeed, yes, the only way is to run out of the > > existing resource. Likewise for whatever will provide more address space.-) > > > > -- Per > > I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other > things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing > it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out there that > runs BGP won't work anymore and have to be updated. This is arguably a > good thing. Also remember that this is still some time away. Getting > ever closer, but still a future event. > > --- > Wayne Bouchard > [email protected] > Network Dude > http://www.typo.org/~web/ --- Wayne Bouchard [email protected] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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