RE: AS numbers and multiple site best practices

2011-02-02 Thread Andy Litzinger
I've had trouble finding any technical reason not to use it. What is important to you about having QA and Corporate use separate AS numbers? Does using the same AS number result in a reduction of separation? For my part it's mostly a desire to make sure that changes to QA or Corp BGP

Re: AS numbers and multiple site best practices

2011-02-02 Thread The Mickster
It seems to me that the issues (in terms of causing failures) are all related to how the prefixes are announced, and not what ASN they are announced from. However if there ARE issues caused by how the prefixes are announced, it may (or may not) be easier to troubleshoot the problem if the

AS numbers and multiple site best practices

2011-02-01 Thread Andy Litzinger
Are there any best practices or guidelines surrounding whether or not one should use the same or unique AS numbers when advertising via BGP from 2 or more physically separate locations? Each location would be advertising at least their own unique /24. My specific scenario is that we are

RE: AS numbers and multiple site best practices

2011-02-01 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
I've had trouble finding any technical reason not to use it. What is important to you about having QA and Corporate use separate AS numbers? Does using the same AS number result in a reduction of separation? Nathan