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AS
Last modified: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Acronym for Autonomous System
An Autonomous System (AS) is a group of
networks under mutual
administration that share the same
routing methodology.
An AS uses an internal
gatewayprotocol
and common metrics to route
packets within the AS
and uses an external gateway protocol to route packets to other Autonomous
Systems.
