[17358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Golovich)
Fri May 29 13:56:13 1998
From: "John Golovich" <john@shutter.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:56:20 +0000
Reply-to: john@shutter.net
In-reply-to: <980529171527.26948D-100000@venus.euro.net>
I think either I am missing the point or others are. We plan on
sending traffic through each others backbones. In essence we will be
one huge network. Sharing traffic. I can do this with private as
numbers?
> On Fri, 29 May 1998, John Golovich wrote:
>
> > In the Detroit area alot of smaller ISPs are looking to create a
> > peering between each other to create shorter router for wherever
> > traffic needs to go (ie. transit routing).
> >
> > This plan has been placed on hold and almost officially shelved
> > because alot of the smaller ISPs dont see the need for an AS number.
>
> Since it's private peering anyway, why not use 64xyz numbers?
>
> Not to sound spoiled or something, but once those ISPs stop being small
> ISPs and become reasonably large ISPs they'll need an AS number anyway.
> $500 is way too much for an ASN, but it's not much compared to what I pay
> for a 4500 router.
>
> With regards,
>
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