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Autonomous System

AS197959 · VIRTUA SYSTEMS SAS

Overview

AS197959 is announced on the Internet: RIPE RIS route collectors currently see 14 IPv4 prefixes and 4 IPv6 prefixes originated by this network. Together, its IPv4 prefixes cover 5,120 addresses, with overlapping prefixes counted once. In the paths the collectors record, it has 3 upstream neighbours (transit providers or peers) and 19 downstream neighbours (customers or networks it carries). Its most visible upstreams are Hurricane Electric LLC (AS6939), VIRTUA SYSTEMS SAS (AS35661), and ParadoxNetworks Limited (AS52025). AS197959 was assigned by RIPE NCC, and its registration country is France.

Source: RIPEstat (RIPE NCC), RIS route collectors. Read on October 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC. This page is refreshed at most every 12 hours.

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The trace goes to 84.75.44.1, the first address of 84.75.44.0/22. An address picked inside a prefix may not answer (nothing listens there, or the network filters probes): the trace then shows the path up to the last network that replies.

Announced prefixes

IPv4 prefixes (14 prefixes)

PrefixAddresses
45.43.214.0/24256
84.75.44.0/221,024
84.75.56.0/221,024
92.62.242.0/24256
168.222.87.0/24256
172.82.148.0/24256
192.25.128.0/24256
192.26.56.0/24256
192.170.104.0/24256
194.147.71.0/24256
198.29.73.0/24256
199.231.70.0/24256
206.206.103.0/24256
216.75.145.0/24256

IPv6 prefixes (4 prefixes)

Prefix
2a06:9801:1b00::/40
2a0a:e641::/36
2a0d:e680:100::/48
2a0f:6281:8000::/33

Neighbours

Upstreams (transit or peers) (3)

ASNetworkVisibility
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC3,843
AS35661VIRTUA SYSTEMS SAS17
AS52025ParadoxNetworks Limited2

Downstreams (customers) (19)

ASNetworkVisibility
AS218654Swish World Group Inc.307
AS40939Project Babbage270
AS58026JiufuNetwork Xiamen Jiufu Network Co., Ltd.266
AS198077Need, L.L.C.-FZ263
AS399892Cloudtunnel263
AS46307Centauri Solutions, LLC262
AS265731Secretaria Legal y Tecnica248
AS200766Kerry Lynn brown jr238
AS218942EFEDUE JOSHUA NEYIN238
AS402440Cyberwolf224
AS211745-188
AS402495-161
AS401036-153
AS210727-135
AS152162-127
AS215686-115
AS210961-49
AS50414-29
AS21641-10

Visibility is RIPEstat's count of how often the route collectors observed the link. It compares neighbours with each other; it is not a traffic volume.

How to read this page

An Autonomous System (AS) is a network run under one routing policy: an internet provider, a cloud, a content network, a university. Each one has a number, its ASN, assigned by a regional registry (ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC), and uses BGP, the protocol networks use to tell each other where addresses are, to announce the blocks of addresses it delivers to.

A prefix such as 203.0.113.0/24 is a block of addresses: the number after the slash says how many bits are fixed, so a /24 holds 256 IPv4 addresses and a /16 holds 65,536. Networks often announce a large block and smaller pieces of it at the same time, which is why the address total counts each address once.

Neighbours come from the paths themselves. A network that appears just before this one in a path, on the collector's side, is an upstream: a transit provider or a peer. One that appears just after it is a downstream, usually a customer. Peering at an internet exchange also shows up as an upstream, so the upstream list is not a list of paid transit.

The data comes from RIPEstat, run by the RIPE NCC, which gathers the routing tables of hundreds of networks through its RIS route collectors. This page reads it when it is visited and keeps it for 12 hours at most; the BGP viewer reads it live.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the ASN of an IP address?
Type the address in the BGP viewer: it shows the prefix that covers it, the AS that originates that prefix and the paths seen towards it. A traceroute also names the network of each hop, so you can see every AS a connection crosses.
Why does one company have several ASNs?
Large operators split their network by region, by activity or by history: a cloud may use one number for its backbone and another for a region, and every acquisition brings its own numbers. Each number has its own page, with its own prefixes and neighbours.
Why do prefix counts differ from one site to another?
Each source sees the routing table from different collectors, at a different time, and counts differently: some include prefixes withdrawn in recent weeks, some merge a block and its pieces. This page counts the prefixes RIPE RIS collectors see originated by the network at the end of the latest two-week window, and counts each IPv4 address once.
Is this the list of IP ranges of a cloud provider?
It is what its networks announce, which is what the Internet routes to them. Many providers also publish an official list of ranges per service and region; that list is the reference for firewall rules, because a range can be announced before it is used, or announced by another of their AS numbers.