If anyone has a 16-Bit ASN spare and is willing to sell it for a decent price, please contact me off list. No fancy number required.
RIPE NCC is handing out ASNs from just one pool these days, and the pool contains probably 99% 32-Bit ASN.
Purpose: Route Servers of our Exchange7 project.
Hello Fredy,
I’m not contacting you about the 16-bit AS, but posting to the ML because I recently started an IXP and had the same issue.
We eventually went with a 32-bit AS and so far have experienced no problems. IXPManager said that it’s required, but other than some communities that will not be available (you’ll be Large-only), there has been no problem whatsoever.
If you can’t find one, don’t worry too much about it, it shouldn’t be a problem. On the other hand, if you insist, a couple brokers had a ton of them for 2-5k which may qualify as “decent” :)
Antonis
On 11 Dec 2024, at 19:24, Fredy Künzler via swinog swinog@lists.swinog.ch wrote:
If anyone has a 16-Bit ASN spare and is willing to sell it for a decent price, please contact me off list. No fancy number required.
RIPE NCC is handing out ASNs from just one pool these days, and the pool contains probably 99% 32-Bit ASN.
Purpose: Route Servers of our Exchange7 project.
-- Fredy Künzler
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Thanks for several off list replies, we got several offerings and were able to acquire AS15701, the transfer has been acknowledged by RIPE NCC.
I also got some feedback that a 32-bit ASN is apparently no longer a problem for route server operations.
We plan to continue with Exchange7 next year and will announce once ready for Beta test.
Happy Christmas to everybody!
On 11.12.24 19:24, Fredy Künzler via swinog wrote:
If anyone has a 16-Bit ASN spare and is willing to sell it for a decent price, please contact me off list. No fancy number required.
RIPE NCC is handing out ASNs from just one pool these days, and the pool contains probably 99% 32-Bit ASN.
Purpose: Route Servers of our Exchange7 project.
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Antonios Chariton (daknob) -
Fredy Künzler