a private asn in (parentheses) indicates a bgp confederation, i would tend to think that there is some sort of mis-config or software bug in one of the routers in that path thats leaking it
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Jason Lewis <jle...@packetnexus.com> wrote: > I was under the impression that MRT only used brackets for sets. eg. > [ASNUM] > > Thanks for taking a look. > > jas > > James Aldridge wrote: >> Jason Lewis wrote: >>> I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at. The reserved AS, 65490 >>> appears in parentheses and I've never seen that in MRT formatted data >>> and not sure why it's happening. >> >> That would be a single-element AS_SET, I guess. >> > >
