anycasting behind different ASNs?

Wed Dec 6 21:52:09 UTC 2006

william(at)elan.net wrote:
> What is the problem you're trying to solve that you think inconsistent 
> origin AS announcements of the same network would solve which announcements
> (from same locations) with same AS would not solve?

Mostly to avoid GRE tunnels and the added "complexity" therein.

My real question was whether anyone actually cared about inconsistent AS 
paths and did something (drop traffic) because of it.  Appears that it's 
not much of an issue.