On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Carlos Friacas wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > >>Hi, > >> > >>ASNV6, no clue... but 32-bit ASN are already prepared, at least in > >>the registry world. > >> > > It was just a joke, since the AS is getting high up there > >in the 2 byte range (2/3's of the available ones down I think) and > >was implying that moving to 4 byte would be as fast/efficient/complete > >as going to IPV6 (Not...) > > That's actually something funny...... > We'll probably run out of v4 addresses sooner than 2 byte ASN, however, > globally it seems more pieces of the puzzle are in place for the latter > "revolution".
I doubt most routers are 4 byte ASN aware, but the difference is no 'revolution' is required as 4 byte is designed to cross silently across any 2 byte only routers without needing any upgrade by nature of BGPv4s flexibility Steve
