* Peter Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 08:47]: > > would i need an AS number if this would work? > > Yup. That's not all. You need at least a /20 (AFAIK) to be able for large > backbones to even consider routing your advertisement. But this was heresay > years ago, I don't know if it still holds.
no. more than half the table is /24s and /23s. > > (3) the home gateway machine is a PII-350 w/ 64MB ram. is this too slow for > > doing what i have asked about in (1)? > Dunno. I suspect you won't be able to load a full BGP table. BGP is really > a big boys(tm) protocol not sure if 2 ADSL connection classifies you as that. > If it did then they would quickly run out of the 16 bit ASN space wouldn't > you think? foremost, running bgp requires your upstreams speaking bgp with you. in general, DSL companies don't do that. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
