different thinking on exchanging traffic
Alan Hannan
alan at globalcenter.net
Wed May 27 04:53:50 UTC 1998
> On the topic of exchange traffic. Is it necessary for both parties
> who will be exchanging traffic to have an as number?
Technically speaking, no.
> From what I understand in order to have the routes announced to the
> internet this will be needed.
Today's "Internet" is a superset of internet providers interconnected
using a common EGP routing protocol -- BGP4. To participate in a 'NAP'
and exchange routes with volumous amounts of peers, BGP4 is pretty
much a necessity. In most all cases, BGP4 requires that the person
announcing routes use a unique ASN.
If you want your upstream to provide the routing announcements for
you, they can anounce your networks with their ASN.
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