North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: disconnected autonomous systems
Aren't some reasons for using disconnected as's regulatory based ie the bells etc? On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > > > inherently wrong with using a single AS in multiple locations, and > > > advertising discrete blocks of address space in each one. The best reason > > > to do this is for a network that you eventually plan to merge - it > > > eliminates issues of having to make major BGP configuration changes. > > > > Nothing inherently wrong with it if you're paying for transit, but good > > luck getting peering in multiple locations without presenting consistent > > views. > > No problem at all. Use a tunnel. > > Going back to the original question: > > (A) Is there a reason have disconnected ASs? Sure. Does it make more sense > than using multiple AS numbers? No. > > (B) Is there a reason to deaggregate? Absolutely. The biggest being rather > bad internal allocations practiced by networks. > > Alex > > -- > > >
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