On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
--On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:54:46 -0400 "Lu, Ping" <PLu@cw.net> wrote:
Definitely there is AS number being used within our backbone but not advertised to public network. So the AS number should be allowed to be registered but not advertised the same way as IP address is treated.
Isn't that the definition of private AS?
The argument here is probably that it may be rather difficult to choose such a private AS number, if you have lots and lots of customers, that it would never clash with their customers' (depending on how it's being used) internal usage. In general, I don't think this kind of AS number use is appropriate in a bigger scale. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords