[17188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Wed May 27 01:02:25 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:53:50 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: john@shutter.net
Cc: nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: <199805261758.NAA29481@fstop.shutter.net>; from John Golovich on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:01:43PM +0000
> 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.
