Little Problem

[Marc Blanchet]

another twist on the same line, trying to help:
- you could use private AS numbers to do peering for some reasons
- however, to be a pTLA, then you need an allocated AS number, unique, so 
that your routes are tagged to you on the global routing table.

Marc.


-- jeudi, janvier 10, 2002 12:27:55 -0800 Bob Fink <fink@es.net> wrote/a 
écrit:

> At 08:39 PM 1/10/2002 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
>> Hello Bob, thanks a lot for your quick answer.
>> Now everything is just most clear but in rfc2772 i can't see why a site
>> without their own asn cannot use the upstream provider's asn to request a
>> pTLA. Can you explain me this?
>
> If you are a pTLA their is no upstream IPv6 provider. If you mean use
> your IPv4 provider's ASN, then you prevent them from ever using it for v6
> and I'm sure they wouldn't like that :-)
>
> The issue is having a unique ASN in the global routing infrastructure.
>
>
> Bob
>



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