RE: Uganda IXP (fwd)

[Lunghabo James <lunghabo@afsat.com>]

Guys

I request the interim chair of the technical committee to contact 
info@utl.co.ug to provide us with the relevant information and piece 
in the gaps.

L

At Monday, 30 April 2001, Rob Gipman <gipmanr@mtn.co.ug> wrote:

>Yo all,
>
>Everyone can get an AS number if they tell ARIN that they are going 
to be
>joining an IXP in Uganda. We at MTN got it for 2 reasons. 1 because 
we are
>going to be part of an IXP and 2 because we will be doing multi 
homing soon.
>Our BGP is already up and running accross the internet.
>
>On the public AS numbers we can use them to interconnect as long 
as we do
>not export them in our bgp setup towards the internet.
>
>Rob
>
>p.s. no word yet from UTL on the pricing for DSL. We are working 
on getting
>the price for Fiber and Wireless local loop.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sematimba Noah K [mailto:ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug]
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:58 PM
>To: techies@uixp.co.ug
>Subject: Re: Uganda IXP (fwd)
>
>I Take that back about AS nos. I just got the excerpt below from Randy.
>
>>the issue that decides getting your own AS is that you are multiply
>>connected.  period, end of story.  and i type this sitting next to the
>>manager of ripe.
>
>randy
>




Lunghabo Wire James

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