[c-nsp] Re-announcing a customer network?

[Joe Provo]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:17:43PM -0400, Dave Temkin wrote:
> Can anyone think of a way that I can take in a route to a customer (who's
> running BGP with me) and announce it to my upstreams as though it's coming
> from my AS?  The only requirement here is that I maintain redundancy (so I
> don't want to go the static w/ a redistribute method)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
 
Uh, don't. Unless it is a private AS you really, really don't want 
to do this.  Creating an inconsistant origin AS condition for your 
customer, defeating loop detection for any of their downstreams, 
and several related horrors await.  Why would you want to obfuscate 
the origin?

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