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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Chris Luke wrote: > > Adonaylo, Gabriel wrote (on Jul 14): > > Could anyone describe pros and cons of having a unique AS for this > > kind of networks rather than having one AS for each country. Regardless of > > the cons, we are facing migration process anytime soon, so I would > > appreciate very much to get more pros than cons to include in my papers > > which are almost finished! <snip> > The downside of a confederation approach, and of others too in similar > circumstances, is that if the confederation gets split (by router or line > failure etc) then the two halves cannot speak to each other, regardless > of how much Transit or peering you have. You won't import routes from > a regular EBGP peer that have your own ASN in the path. Thus, if you do > have a confed ASN per country, you need to ensure your inter-country > connectivity is up to scratch to avoid this scenario. Presumably you can mitigate with allow-own-as to ensure you can connect your countries together over transits... Steve
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