Elvis Daniel Velea wrote on 11/06/2023 10:06:
> If someone could tell me why a 32bit ASN can not be used today (even
> with 10 years old equipment), I’d appreciate it.
there's plenty of kit out there which still doesn't support BGP Large
Communities, particularly mikrotik routeros which only released an
initial production implementation at around the beginning of 2022.
Nick
thanks for that. I’m surprised to hear this, but heh, manufacturers can be slow sometimes… very slow :(
It may, then, matter to some if an ASN is 16bit or not. I know that the NCC had at some point (maybe still do) assigned 16bit ASNs upon request. Curious to see some stats, if possible:
- how many requests come in for 16bit a year? how many are those of the total ASN requests?
- how many 16bit ASNs are still in the pool and how many come back to the free pool every year?
Just trying to see how many years until 16bit ASNs could only be issued by the NCC only if returned.
On another note, I believe that there were a lot of 16bit ASNs in quarantine because of references in various objects (mostly as-sets if I recall correctly). Can you tell us, Marco, how many of those ASNs are quarantined and why aren’t these removed out of quarantine and assigned?
elvis