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

[Dave Temkin]

Honestly I have good reason for this.  In a normal situation, yes, I would
agree with you.

-Dave

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Joe Provo wrote:

> 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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