[39798] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How many ISPs are out there?
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Tue Jul 24 10:41:24 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:40:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> some exceptions <Qwest?>) use BGP either. Then there is the old route
> pre-fixing problem. Not many ISPs, smaller than /19, are going to be doing
> effective ASN's either.
I would take issue with the assertion that you need a /19 or larger to "be
doing effective ASNs". My understanding is that as long as you get a
block from former class C or "the swamp", you should be visible
everywhere. We recently requested, and got a /21 from 65/8 from Sprint.
A phone call and some pleading got them to change that to 208.8.16.0/21
AFAIK, that's reachable everywhere from AS19975 If that's *not* correct,
I'd sure like to know...
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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