--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
3) One advantage of using a public, albeit common, customer ASN is that if a customer has RIR-allocated space, those IPs will make it onto the global table, and will not suffer the filtering which may be present for the provider's own routes.
Ok this seems to be a difference, altho not sure why the custs IPs should need to do anything different from the providers IPs as presumably both need to be reachable from everywhere?
There are providers out there who treat $PEER differently from $CUSTOMER_OF_PEER, with regard to aggregation etc. Also, I believe that there used to be providers who would dampen routes on a per-AS basis, rather than on a per-route basis. I am not sure whether anyone still does this. ===== David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/