Question

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Graham Burke wrote:

> Hi just a quick question
> We have been recently been allocated our /19 however RIPE have
> assigned us only the first 700 address this I believe is pretty
> standard procedure.
> 
> However our connectivity supplier will not advertise our routes unless
> we have our full /19 assigned and registered with RIPE, obvioulsy as
> the range is too small.

Graham,

Your transit provider is almost certainly in error. Unless you are asking
them to route individual prefixes to places other than your network, it is
simply a matter of them announcing your /19 at their border.

Then you can run an IGP (e.g. OSPF) with them, placing you inside their
AS. Alternatively you could speak BGP to them using a private AS that is
stripped before public announcement. Finally, if you are multihomed, you
can apply for an AS number and simply announce your prefix using standard
BGP.

Implementing this is definitely way beyond the scope of this mailing list,
and should be between your routing engineers, their routing engineers, and
your router vendor.

I suspect RIPE would never assign padding space in an allocation.

Joshua

-[ Joshua Goodall ]-----------------------------------------------
-[ Chief Systems Architect, IP R&D, InterXion ]-------------------
-[ joshuag at interxion.com ]--------------[ joshua at roughtrade.net ]-

> GB-10488

p.s. shouldn't that be GB10488-RIPE?

pps Edinburgh still lovely at this time of year?