From: Herbert Maosa (asawilunda@googlemail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2007 - 15:31:20 ART
If you dont have your own ASN, you will most likely have to use a private
ASN to connect to the two ISPs. Remember that if you use the ISPs ASN then
you are an extension of that ISP. Using the private ASN in this case will
permit you to be totally provider independent.
regards,
Herbert.
On 7/29/07, Gregory Gombas <ggombas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When connecting to the internet via two different ISP's, why is it
> necessary to have a unique AS?
>
> What if you simply configured your BGP router with the same AS number
> as one of your ISP's?
>
> Considering there are only 64511 unique AS numbers, I assume that most
> if not all the AS numbers are already taken. What do companies do in
> the case they cannot get their own AS number and need to multihome?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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