Tag Archives: BGP4

Does your router unterstand 32-bit ASNs ?

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Thorleif Wiik

As mentioned last year, 32bit ASNs are coming fast to us. Greg Hankings showed up a matrix in his presentation at NANOG45, which software release you need on your bgp speaker to support ASN32.

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New Peering Boy at BCIX: Foundry BigIron RX-8

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Thorleif Wiik

This week, we received a new toy at BCIX. A Foundry Networks BigIron RX-8: As you cann see in the picture, this Box is currently configured with 8 line Rate 10G Ports, 24 SFP GE Ports and 24 10/100/1000 Copper … Continue reading →

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Firefox AS Number Extension

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Thorleif Wiik

The Firefox AS Number Extension is one of my favorite Firefox Add-ons. The extension is now available for Firefox 3, so it’s worth to blog about it. With this extension, you can see, where the server of the current website … Continue reading →

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Are we running out of AS numbers ?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Thorleif Wiik

Regarding a presentation of RIPE, we will run out of AS Numbers sometime between late 2010 and early 2013. The allocation rate is currently about 10-12 ASN/day. Therefore, 32bit ASN (ASN32) will be introduced. The transition phase started on 1/1/2007. … Continue reading →

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