North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
> On the topic of exchange traffic. Is it necessary for both parties > who will be exchanging traffic to have an as number? Technically speaking, no. > From what I understand in order to have the routes announced to the > internet this will be needed. Today's "Internet" is a superset of internet providers interconnected using a common EGP routing protocol -- BGP4. To participate in a 'NAP' and exchange routes with volumous amounts of peers, BGP4 is pretty much a necessity. In most all cases, BGP4 requires that the person announcing routes use a unique ASN. If you want your upstream to provide the routing announcements for you, they can anounce your networks with their ASN.
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