On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:56:06PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 21/03/2009 16:36, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > er... 'parm me sir, but aren't -all- ASNs 4 bytes? > > > > i mean, for lo these many years we cheated and only > > used the first two bytes... but the spec always > > called out four bytes. > > There seems to be a bug in my router: > > >router(config)#router bgp 196641 > > ^ > >% Invalid input detected at '^' marker. > > > >router(config)# > > Do you know of anyone I could call who can fix this? > > Nick
your using the wrong protocol.. :) or the wrong version of a vendors code. try EGP and you should be fine w/ 4byte ASNs. --bill