Re: [isp-bgp] BCP for multi-homing to the same provider entail using a private ASN

["C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen@...>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jeffrey Belles wrote:

> Jon,
> 
>  From http://www.sprint.net/faq/as1790.html
> 
> "
> The Autonomous System 1790 is reserved for use exclusively by those 
> customers that do not currently have another Internet Service Provider, 
> and currently have, or are in the process of implementing, multiple 
> connections utilizing the same IP space (multi-homed neworks) into the 
> Sprintlink backbone, via a dedicated IP Private Line. To utilize AS 
> 1790, please contact your account team for ordering information.
> "

Yes, Thanks !

Wonder why the "account team" did not mention that and insisted we buy an 
ASN ?

-jon

> 
> Might be what you're looking for?
> 
>   -Jeffrey
> 
> 
> C. Jon Larsen schreef:
> > I have always used a private ASN (or UUnet's shared ASN 7046 when dealing 
> > with UUnet) when multihoming to the *same* provider. 
> > 
> > I can't seem to convince Sprint to let my customer do this - we have 3 
> > Sprint t1s in different geographic locations and simply want to announce 
> > our prefixes (with no-export of course). I was told we'd need to get an 
> > ASN to run BGP. This seems wasteful, especially w/ ASNs being 16bit 
> > numbers that are rapidly depleting. 
> > 
> > Any ideas ? Anyone know how to approach this better w/ Sprint ? 
> > 
> > bgp4-admin@... has not responded to my request and its been a 
> > week+. 
> > 
> > Or should my customer go ahead and apply for an ASN even though we have 
> > no plans to multihome to different providers.
> > 
> > TIA 
> > 
> 




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