At 12:24 AM 21/03/2006, wei chenguang wrote:
hello,everyone,
I have 2 questions:
- 4-byte AS number can increase the number of AS, is the AS resource rare
now?
no - but the depletion rate of ASs from the unallocated AS number pool
suggests that we will exhaust the unallocated pool by late 2010. See
http://www.potaroo.net/tools/asns/ for further details.
- Can the equipment support 4-byte ASN without any modification?
Existing deployed routers running BGP within a 2-byte AS need not undertake
any changes to their equipment nor to their BGP code base. ASs running with
as 4-byte ASN will need to use upgraded BGP software that is aware of
4-Byte ASs. Details of this can be found at
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-08/as.html and at
http://smakd.potaroo.net/ietf/idref/draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes/index.html
regards,
Geoff
