BGP AS_TRANS

BGP speakers that support 4-byte ASNs advertise this via BGP capability negotiation and there is backward compatibility. When a “new” router talks to an “old” router (one that only supports 2-byte AS numbers), it can use a reserved AS number (23456) called AS_TRANS instead of its 4-byte AS number.

The value of AS_TRANS is statically set to 23456 by the IANA.

https://networklessons.com/bgp/bgp-4-byte-number/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4893#section-7

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