Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

[Andre Oppermann <nanog-list () nrg4u com>]

Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the 
> > last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such 
> > that it will intercept the eBGP traffic.
>
> Ok. So that's a "not important" then.
>
> I'm interested in operational use of any kind of passive BGP 'reader' 
> btw - not just ethereal/tcpdump. (Just to make it obvious ;) ).

IMO it is very important to have the ability to listen into a BGP
stream at any point in time and have the reader decode the updates/
withdrawls starting from the next message boundary.

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Andre