Many MPLS configurations from ISPs allow you to select whatever AS number you'd like, because they do not relay that information any further out. You'd need to confirm with them that you can use a public-private AS if you wanted to go that route, oth...
It sounds like what you're asking is about the concept of switched virtual interfaces - "interface vlan 10", for instance, is a switched virtual interface. This is different than a VLAN in that a VLAN is a logical network segment, a broadcast domain,...
Since you're on an ASA, you can't use a wildcard mask - try using the subnet mask itself (255.255.255.252). You have the correct wildcard, but Cisco ASAs (or, to my knowledge, some/most of them) don't support wildcard masks in ACL statements. Otherwi...
The only advantages that I know of are fddi and token ring support, but as those aren't eminent technologies anymore you can kind of see why Cisco deprecated it. The drawbacks - 30-byte header, frame encapsulation instead of tag, needing to recalcula...
