We received our ASN in 2004 with a justification of "intend to multihome."
Jeff On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Brielle Bruns wrote: > >> It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after >> hair pulling, head banging on desk, and >> i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we figured >> out how to work around the circular "You need to have two upstreams first >> before we will assign an AS" rule but providers can't/won't peer with you >> without one in the first place reality. > > It's been a while since I've applied for an ASN...but used to be you just > put on the form that you've ordered connectivity from multiple providers > with the intent of multihoming, and that was good enough for ARIN. If > that's no longer good enough, I would think any understanding provider would > let you setup the peering connection first, assign it a /30, and then wait > for you to get your ASN to do the BGP part. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications - AS32421 First and Leading in DDoS Protection Solutions