Re: [Idr] new ID on expansion of private use ASN range

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:56:35PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> ok, so let's see if i have it correctly.
> 
> the case you are trying to support is the use of a private asn for a
> customer who is bgp multihomed to a single isp,

Or small set of providers using a coordinated internal space.

> and that provider has
> more than 1024 of this kind of customer.  and the asns can not be
> re-used because they need as-loop prevention so can not turn as-loop
> detection off?

There's that opex thing again.  You'd have to track which customers are in
sites that need to communicate with each other and make sure not to re-use
numbers for those customer subsets. 

More numbers means less operational complexity.

-- Jeff