[3327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS numbers question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vab Goel)
Fri Jul 5 19:06:10 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:56:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vab Goel <vgoel@sprint.net>
To: Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
cc: Alexandre Leib Grojsgold <algold@lambda.lncc.br>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607052209.AA03147@zephyr.isi.edu>
On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Bill Manning wrote:
> >
> > 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.
64512 thru 65535 (ref RFC 1930)
vab:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > TIA
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> --bill
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