Re: AS Path Loops in practice ?

In a message written on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:07:03PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

Perhaps I'm missing something having not done this myself but why arent the customers just using private ASNs? That would also remove the 'must default' clause.

Not enough, customers already use them internally, other things use them (eg, route servers), easier to talk customers through configs on the phone, allows customers who have IP space but not an ASN to announce to the Internet without the provider having to announce directly. I'll bet there are more I can't remember. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org