Additionally, ARIN only requires that you have a unique routing policy that differs from that of your border gateway peers or that you are multi-homed, in the sense that you are connected to two or more upstream providers - one provider with two gateway locations can be handled, if necessary, by a Private AS.
Most likely, the connection size limitation is enforced either by an LIR providing the number, or (possibly) the nation's laws, though that would be a stretch. RIPE itself only requires that you have your own, independently owned address space, that your routing policy is consistent and unique in comparison to your peers, that you can't use a private ASN, and that you are multi-homed. If you're having issues with bandwidth limitations preventing you from getting an AS, bypass the LIR and go straight to RIPE (or ARIN, in the States) for it.
Oh, and from experience, Michelle, if you're setting that system up on BGP for redundancy purposes, make damned sure that if all the fibre is going to the same site that they do not pass through the same locations on their way to the upstream providers. It really stinks when your redundant connections all die at once because of a power loss at the central office.
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2004-04-22 23:01:21, schrieb William Burns:
I was thinking of building a BGP aware router (W/ only ethernet interfaces) and having it communicate w/ the 2 ISPs through the existing cisco routers.
I've been told that BGP routers can't do that and that I need a single BGP aware router w/ 2 v.35 interfaces on it.
Is that true?
If so, where do I get V.35 interfaces for use w/ LEAF?
I've got 2 T1s w/ two different ISPs (hence the desire to use BGP) I already have two dinky cisco routers w/ v.35 interfaces.
If you have only two T1's you will never get your AS-Number for BGP-Routing. I planing to do this in Morocco with 4 BGP-4 Routers
(Do not know wether Debian or CISCO) but with much more the OC3's
The minimum is an E3 (34 MBit) en Europe or T3 (45 MBit) in the USA
It is new for me to and I have to learn many things about this.. =8O
Greetings Michelle
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