Peter / Dean Thanks for your input on this. I'm glad (and not so glad) that other people are seeing the same issue. It is a shame that SPs are not implementing these commands when this is exactly what they are designed for. Anyone know why an SP would not add a remove-private-as command to their BGP configuration peering with me?
Gary On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Peter Rathlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:34 +0100, Dean Smith wrote: > > The constraint in my case is the MPLS product I can buy. Each resilient > > access is configured as its own private AS for BGP. The core AS uses > > the SP registered AS. I have no option but to have a route table full > > of <private as>.<sp mpls as>.<private as> > > I'm may have misunderstood your setup, but AFAIK "allow-as in" and > "as-override" were designed for exactly the Customer-SP-Customer > scenario. It's a shame that the provider doesn't want to use them then. > > > I have no option to impose a single consistent AS on my Supplier- and > > realistically only the one supplier for size of network I need in my > > market (Full national coverage of the uk). > > I noticed this in OPs configuration: > > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:30 +0100, Gary Roberton wrote: > <snip> > > router bgp 2856 > <snip> > > AS2856 is "BT-UK-AS" according to whois. I assume it covers most of the > UK. Coincidence? ;-D > > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:34 +0100, Dean Smith further wrote: > > As it happens we do have our own registered AS we use for our internet > > facing presence and a limited number of external peerings. But again > > I have to jump through hoops to present all routes as that single AS > > after all no-one wants to see which SP I use for my MPLS core or how > > many private AS I have. Given I can change/amend/delete/add almost > > every other metric in the BGP decision process it seems strange I dont > > have full control to manipulate the AS path aswell. > > I completely agree. More control would be better. I'll try and mention > it to the next SE/AM I see, even though I think my (medium enterprise) > voice means little to them. > > > still life would be dull if it was all easy. > > Yes, the "Plug'n'Pray" revolution still seems a few steps away in core > networking. :-) > > Regards, > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
