Unless you're AS 1 <cough> AS 3356 </cough> does it really matter? :-) -----Original Message----- From: Eric Kuhnke [mailto:eric@fnordsystems.com] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:12 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Low AS - Number The US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground controls ASN 666. Coincidence? I think not! :) At 12:10 PM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Dwight Ringdahl wrote:

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Nope strictly for marketing reasons... ASN has almost no place in BGP selection.

Dang Geek Pride! (Still MH94 and 3901 after all these years..)

It's worse than hanging around Ham radio guys with 4 digit call signs...

.. Next we'll get into .. "I booted off of paper tape.." and then.. "I booted off of flip switches".. but I'm one of the few that have strung ferrites on a loom.. Martha.. get me my cane..

------- And to get completely off topic.. Why/how would you use an ASN for marketing purposes? And should this even be considered.. except as a tongue in cheek geek thing?

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