I would say that the specifics you provide in your email are sufficient for ARIN to issue you a second ASN. There is really no other feasible way to deal with 2 separate multi-home sites that I can think of.
-Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President - IT Services | Red Hat Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (800)578-6381, Opt. 1 ---- ----- Original Message ----- > 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 moving our QA Lab to a datacenter > that we will multi-home with two providers via BGP. We also plan to > multi-home our corporate office with two providers (not likely to be > the same providers) also via BGP. We currently have an AS that is in > use for our multi-homed production data center. In the interest of > keeping production totally segregated from QA/corp I would prefer to > not use our production datacenter AS for our QA Lab or corporate > network, but I've had trouble finding any technical reason not to use > it. ARIN is asking for a detailed technical explanation to justify my > request. > > Thanks in advance, > -andy
