Sounds like you guys were doing IBGP...
-B
"Dan West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> My former employer (an ISP) had BGP peering with our
> upstream provider(Telco). As I understand it so far,
> BGP4 is used to advertise routes between autonomous
> systems. One day I ran a web-based traceroute to my
> old haunt and it showed them having the same
> autonomous system number as our bandwidth provider.
> Were we unnecessarily using BGP? I don't understand
> why our telco and we (the ISP) had the same AS number.
>
>
> Am I misunderstanding the purpose of the AS number in
> BGP?
>
> Many thanks.
>
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