This is considered a normal and accepted practice, and there are many companies out there that do just this sort of thing. From the perpective of everyone else outside your AS everything will be perfectly fine. The only thing you'll need to be aware of is that your islands will not be able to see each others routes due to AS Path loop prevention mechanisms inherent in BGP, since they will see routes received with your AS in the AS Path and will assume some type of loop is taking place. You can get around this by configuring AS loop support on your routers. My apologies for the top-posting, I'm using my BB. Stefan Fouant Neustar, Inc. / Principal Engineer 46000 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 Office: +1.571.434.5656 ▫ Mobile: +1.202.210.2075 ▫ GPG ID: 0xB5E3803D ▫ stefan.fouant@neustar.biz ----- Original Message ----- From: Francois Menard <francois@menards.ca> To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Sat Sep 12 21:35:00 2009 Subject: Advertising BGP-4 from two islands I have an opportunity to launch services in a remote marke, where I cannot extend my backbone to. However, this market is big enough that I can afford to put a Cisco 7201 over there and peer in BGP-4. Do you have any advice as to what may happen if I advertise different blocks from the same AS number, from two different locations, one of which I do not have my own transport facilities to... F.