[c-nsp] Multihoming Question

[Paul Stewart]

thanks very much... for some reason I thought getting an ASN was like
"pulling teeth" but have talked to ARIN today and it's pretty easy
really...;)   Yes, it makes much more sense now to avoid private ASN's
and just do it "properly"...;)

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Adam Greene
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:18 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Multihoming Question

Paul,

If you have a peering arrangement with the other ISP, I could conceive
that you could get away with assigning the customer a private ASN which
both you and the other ISP agree upon. But ... I have never done this.
Maybe two different private ASNs in this situation (one from each
provider) could also work, but I expect it would be complicated and I
don't see what the advantage would be.

Getting a unique public ASN from ARIN is not complicated or that
expensive ($500 setup and $100/yr), and I would expect would simplify
things as well as put the customer in good stead for the future.

Hope that helps.

Adam