[136229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS numbers and multiple site best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Carpenter)
Tue Feb 1 19:52:09 2011
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:50:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
To: Andy Litzinger <Andy.Litzinger@theplatform.com>
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I would say that the specifics you provide in your email are sufficient for ARIN to issue you a second ASN. There is really no other feasible way to deal with 2 separate multi-home sites that I can think of.
-Randy
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----- Original Message -----
> Are there any best practices or guidelines surrounding whether or not
> one should use the same or unique AS numbers when advertising via BGP
> from 2 or more physically separate locations? Each location would be
> advertising at least their own unique /24.
>
> My specific scenario is that we are moving our QA Lab to a datacenter
> that we will multi-home with two providers via BGP. We also plan to
> multi-home our corporate office with two providers (not likely to be
> the same providers) also via BGP. We currently have an AS that is in
> use for our multi-homed production data center. In the interest of
> keeping production totally segregated from QA/corp I would prefer to
> not use our production datacenter AS for our QA Lab or corporate
> network, but I've had trouble finding any technical reason not to use
> it. ARIN is asking for a detailed technical explanation to justify my
> request.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -andy
