autonomous-system
Syntax
autonomous-system autonomous-system <asdot-notation> <loops number> {
independent-domain <no-attrset>;
}
Hierarchy Level
[edit logical-systems logical-system-name routing-instances routing-instance-name routing-options], [edit logical-systems logical-system-name routing-options], [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name routing-options], [edit routing-options]
Description
Specify the routing device’s AS number.
An autonomous system (AS) is a set of routing devices that are under a single technical administration and that generally use a single interior gateway protocol (IGP) and metrics to propagate routing information within the set of routing devices. An AS appears to other ASs to have a single, coherent interior routing plan and presents a consistent picture of what destinations are reachable through it. ASs are identified by a number that is assigned by the Network Information Center (NIC) in the United States (http://www.isi.edu).
If you are using BGP on the routing device, you must configure an AS number.
The AS path attribute is modified when a route is advertised to an EBGP peer. Each time a route is advertised to an EBGP peer, the local routing device prepends its AS number to the existing path attribute, and a value of 1 is added to the AS number.
In Junos OS Release 9.1 and later, the numeric range is extended to provide BGP support for 4-byte AS numbers as defined in RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space. RFC 4893 introduces two new optional transitive BGP attributes, AS4_PATH and AS4_AGGREGATOR. These new attributes are used to propagate 4-byte AS path information across BGP speakers that do not support 4-byte AS numbers. RFC 4893 also introduces a reserved, well-known, 2-byte AS number, AS 23456. This reserved AS number is called AS_TRANS in RFC 4893. All releases of Junos OS support 2-byte AS numbers.
In Junos OS Release 9.3 and later, you can also configure a 4-byte AS number using the AS-dot notation format of two integer values joined by a period: <16-bit high-order value in decimal>.<16-bit low-order value in decimal>. For example, the 4-byte AS number of 65,546 in plain-number format is represented as 1.10 in the AS-dot notation format.
Options
autonomous-system—AS number. Use a number assigned to you by the NIC.
Range: 1 through 4,294,967,295 (232 – 1) in plain-number format for 4-byte AS numbers
In this example, the 4-byte AS number 65,546 is represented in plain-number format:
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routing-options {
autonomous-system 65546;
}
Range: 0.0 through 65535.65535 in AS-dot notation format for 4-byte numbers
In this example, 1.10 is the AS-dot notation format for 65,546:
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routing-options {
autonomous-system 1.10;
}
Range: 1 through 65,535 in plain-number format for 2-byte AS numbers (this is a subset of the 4-byte range)
In this example, the 2-byte AS number 60,000 is represented in plain-number format:
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routing-options {
autonomous-system 60000;
}
asdot-notation—(Optional) Display the configured 4-byte autonomous system number in the AS-dot notation format.
Default: Even if a 4-byte AS number is configured in the AS-dot notation format, the default is to display the AS number in the plain-number format.
loops number—(Optional) Specify the number of times detection of the AS number in the AS_PATH attribute causes the route to be discarded or hidden. For example, if you configure loops 1, the route is hidden if the AS number is detected in the path one or more times. This is the default behavior. If you configure loops 2, the route is hidden if the AS number is detected in the path two or more times.
Range: 1 through 10
Default: 1
When you specify the same AS number in more than one routing
instance on the local routing device, you must configure the same
number of loops for the AS number in each instance. For example, if
you configure a value of 3 for the loops statement
in a VRF routing instance that uses the same AS number as that of
the master instance, you must also configure a value of 3 loops
for the AS number in the master instance.
Use the independent-domain option if the loops statement must be enabled only on a subset of routing instances.
The remaining statement is explained separately. See CLI Explorer.
Required Privilege Level
routing—To view this statement in the configuration.
routing-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Release Information
Statement introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.
asdot-notation option introduced in Junos OS Release 9.3.
asdot-notation option introduced in Junos OS Release 9.3 for EX Series switches.
no-attrset option introduced in Junos OS Release 10.4.