[3326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS numbers question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Fri Jul 5 18:15:45 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
To: algold@lambda.lncc.br (Alexandre Leib Grojsgold)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9607052133.AA13876@lambda.lncc.br> from "Alexandre Leib Grojsgold" at Jul 5, 96 06:33:02 pm
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> Are there "reserved" AS numbers, the same way there are reserved IP
> addresses for non-connected networks?
Yes there are. Something liek the top 1000 or so.
I'll dig up the reference if you want.
> Are As numbers considered scarce ? (I think of many small Internet
> providers asking for AS numbers just to peer BGP with more than one ISP).
About the same as IP numbers.
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> TIA
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