On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
some exceptions <Qwest?>) use BGP either. Then there is the old route pre-fixing problem. Not many ISPs, smaller than /19, are going to be doing effective ASN's either.
I would take issue with the assertion that you need a /19 or larger to "be doing effective ASNs". My understanding is that as long as you get a block from former class C or "the swamp", you should be visible everywhere. We recently requested, and got a /21 from 65/8 from Sprint. A phone call and some pleading got them to change that to 208.8.16.0/21 AFAIK, that's reachable everywhere from AS19975 If that's *not* correct, I'd sure like to know... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am =========================================================================