Mailing List Archive: Sprint Collapsing ASes?

Well, I was on vacation last week, and came back to this note from
the SprintLink NOC. I'm surprised no one else posted this.

Is there any other information? Are they collapsing all of their
networks to a single ASN?

Here's the post:

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 13:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mujahid Khan <mkhan@sprint.net>
To: rob@fuse.net
Subject: BGP AS change

Rob,

We'll be changing the BGP AS # on the router that you connect to
in Washington DC from "1790" to "1239".

The change will be made at midnight, July 13 (Sunday night-
Monday morning).

If you have questions regarding this, please let me know.

Thanks.

____
Mujahid Khan
703-689-7217

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"Robert A. Pickering Jr." <pickerin@fuse.net> wrote:
>Well, I was on vacation last week, and came back to this note from
>the SprintLink NOC. I'm surprised no one else posted this.
Perhaps we were all waiting to how well it went; the doom-n-gloomers
will undoubtably flame away no matter how smoothly this large change
gets executed.

>Is there any other information? Are they collapsing all of their
>networks to a single ASN?
Yes, they're going to reflectors. All the 'visible confederacy'
stuff is folding into 1239.

Cheers,

Joe

Afilliation for identification only, etc etc...
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