[88038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PI space and colocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jan 18 17:20:11 2006
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Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:19:37 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Chris Ranch wrote:
> In the past under these circumstances, if the customer still
> insists on
> BGP after I strongly recommeded just a static DFG, I'd peer with the
> customer with a private AS (64512-65535). Then they usually ask me to
> annouce a DFG to them. Sometimes they'd want a full table. Sigh.
If they are annoying, just let them use their own AS and make it a
confederation.
You see it, they see it, the rest of the world doesn't.
> At least they'd have the future flexibility of adding another provider
> without much change. I've personally done that too.
Easier if they're using their own ASN.
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TTFN,
patrick