[Xorp-hackers] Peering problem with mixed 2- and 4-byte ASN

Canini Marco marco.canini at epfl.ch
Mon Sep 28 08:15:05 PDT 2009


I've opened a Trac ticket about this.
Cheers

Marco Canini, Ph.D.
EPFL, Networked Systems Laboratory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Simpson [mailto:bms at incunabulum.net]
> Sent: Monday, 28 September, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: Canini Marco
> Cc: xorp-hackers at icir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xorp-hackers] Peering problem with mixed 2- and 4-byte
> ASN
> 
> Hi Marco,
> 
> Thanks for your detailed message regarding issues in XORP's 32-bit AS
> implementation.
> 
> My only real exposure to this has been in attempting to configure a
> native 32-bit AS peering with OpenBGPD, which was unsuccessful. The
> 32-bit AS support in XORP is a relatively recent change, by current
> history; it was implemented towards the end of 2008, and there has not
> been significant developer activity on BGP since then.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have free time at the moment to investigate the
> issue further. If you could raise a Trac ticket about this issue on
> SourceForge, that would be great. I'll forward your original message
> about this onto the author(s) of BGP and the 32-bit AS patch.
> 
> best regards,
> BMS
> 




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