[c-nsp] Route-Object creation

[Randy McAnally]

Some will make one for you if you don't want to make your own.  Level3
actually has a checkbox on their order form for it.

--
Randy
www.FastServ.com

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Daniel Holme <dan.holme at gmail.com>
To: Andrew Gabriel <mailandrewg at gmail.com>
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:57:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Route-Object creation

> Hi Andrew
> 
> If your ASN is public then you just need one route object with your
> ASN in the 'origin' field.
> 
> You can check by doing a lookup with '-T route <prefix>'.
> 
> If your upstream is going to originate from their AS (ie. you had a
> private AS or just statically routed) then they would need a route
> object, maybe there's some confusion over what they think they are
> providing you.
> 
> --Dan
> 
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Andrew Gabriel 
> <mailandrewg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Need a bit of advice from the folks who work at ISPs or are familiar with
> > the ARIN setup.
> >
> > We already have our own ASN and public IP subnets registered to us, and we
> > have had several sites running BGP with the ISP and also announcing our
> > subnets out to the Internet, though with a single ISP at each site so far
> > (this was done in preparation for multi-homing several years ago but we are
> > only now adding the second ISP).
> >
> > Now, with the additional/backup ISP, but the same existing subnet that is
> > already being announced and routed fine with the existing ISPs, do we still
> > need to create a route-object? I was pretty sure that we didn't as the
> > subnets already have route-objects done from when we started announcing them
> > to the existing ISPs, and the route-object to my understanding is done by
> > ARIN and is ISP-neutral.
> >
> > However the new ISP (a tier-1 provider, BTW) categorically stated in reply
> > to my mailed query to them that we still needed to create a route-object. So
> > I am confused. Would appreciate any advice.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Andrew.
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