bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes: > 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.
rfc 827, page 3: Autonomous systems will be assigned 16-bit identification numbers (in much the same ways as network and protocol numbers are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains one word for this number. -r