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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Private ASN suppression
RFC1998 which assumes that AS 64750 is using address space delegated to AS X, so that the AS 64750 addresses won't be explicitly advertised, but only as part ofI'm not sure I am looking at this the right way, but: It seems similar to confederations, but I'm not sure the stripping method is adequate for becoming a transit AS. I'm guessing that this was designed for something much simplier. The only method I could see, is that a customer is multihomed to the same AS. The customer would not likely be able to obtain a AS from ARIN since they are fall under the same routing policy. The provider could strip the fake AS, and announce the prefix with their AS. the aggregate announced by AS X. The AS 64750 routes should be marked with the NO-EXPORT community just to make things sure. As you suggest, the only reason I can see to do it is if AS 64750 had provider independent address space, then I could see (ignoring any effects on aggregation policy), a reason for AS X to advertise the PI routes. AS 64750 announces <64750> up to AS X, AS x uses it to determine routing policy. At the edge, AS X will strip it and announce just <X> to the Internet as a whole. AS 64750 would have some control over how the traffic would enter their network. This also gives them the mechinism for failover. I've used this method before, but not in the same exact way. In that method, it was a smaller part of a CIDR allocation, so they were aggregated into a larger block at the edge. No reason for the Internet to know about the topology when its all the same AS anyway. So, this is only really useful if the customer has their own blocks. For cisco to support it...someone has to be using this feature... Not to be flying a false flag here, I'm trying to decide if we should support this feature on Nortel Versalar routers. So far, I haven't seen a reason for supporting this in addition to confederations, but I've been wrong before. A greater area of concern is managing private AS numbers given widespread deployment of RFC 2547 VPNs, with the CE routers talking BGP to the PE routers. For a large provider, 1K isn't a lot of AS number space. I'm inclined to believe that scalability will require there must be a hierarchy of private AS numbers, essentially reserving some as aggregates. (tm) "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[email protected]> wrote > >I'm trying to understand the problem being solved by the Cisco >private AS removal feature. In particular, what advantages does it >offer over confederations, which would seem to do the same thing when >externally advertising customer routes? Is there a performance >benefit? > >RFC1998-style multihoming with a private AS is a possible >application, I suppose, for any routes that are NOT marked with >NO-EXPORT.
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