> > Does no one remember EGP? ASNs are MUCH older than BGP. And we were > using BGPv3 prior to the existence of V4. We used BGPv4 back in the days > when Tony Li would chastise us for reporting a bug in a 10 day old Cisco > build saying that we could not expect BGPv4 code over a week old to > work. He felt that we should deploy new code daily. > > The big push was to have v4 available before the old PRDB was frozen by > Merit/NSFnet. (And, who remembers the PRDB?) > -- >
I caught the trailing edge of V3. I remember announcing 129 prefixes to Sprintlink, one for our B, and 128 for our /17 from C-space :)