You can absolutely run external BGP and internal BGP with the same AS. This is a very common configuration.
On 2013 Jan 17 (Thu) at 05:36:24 +0000 (+0000), Войнович Андрей Александрович wrote: :Hello! :I have public AS and address range, everything is Ok, but now I want to :connect my routers via LAN and announce my public networks between them. :So I need to configure private AS and peers, as I think: : :R1: :AS 55555 65006 :# public ISP :neighbor 1.1.1.1 { : announce self : remote-as 44444 :} :# my private LAN peer :neighbor 10.0.41.5 { : announce self : remote-as 65005 : descr "r2" :} : :And R2 router: :AS 55555 65005 :# public ISP :neighbor 2.2.2.2 { : announce self : remote-as 22222 :} :# my private LAN peer :neighbor 10.0.41.6 { : announce none : remote-as 65006 : descr "r1" :} : :But when I restart bgpd, I receive error: :Last error: AS unacceptable : :I suppose I have to force announcement of private AS for my private peer, but :didn't find how to do it in config file. : :------------------------------- :Andrey : -- Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won.