Autonomous system
AS3701 LINK-OREGON
Education ARIN
Summary
Link Oregon (formerly NERO, University of Oregon)
education research nren legacy
LINK-OREGON is the statewide research and education network for Oregon. It grew out of NERO — the Network for Education and Research in Oregon — which the University of Oregon operated for decades, and which Link Oregon absorbed on its formation in 2019.
What it's used for
- Middle-mile connectivity for Oregon's universities, colleges, K-12 systems, public agencies, tribal organizations, and non-profits.
- Research networking: connecting Oregon institutions onward to national research networks and to peering points in Seattle, Boise, and the Bay Area.
Notable
- Link Oregon is a non-profit consortium of Oregon's four research universities (Oregon State, University of Oregon, OHSU, and Portland State) together with the state government.
- The RIR record still names the University of Oregon, a holdover from the NERO era — the handle changed to
LINK-OREGONbut the registration lineage is the same network. - This is R&E address space: institutions and campuses, not consumer broadband.
Interesting
- NERO began as a research project into high-speed wide-area networking for Oregon education, which is how a state R&E network ended up holding an AS number this low.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.76 |
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.15 |
| Central Oregon Internet eXchange | Bend, United States | 149.112.8.11 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 19 downstream and 48 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 135K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 22 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3701- Registry name
- LINK-OREGON
- Registrant
- University of Oregon
- Abuse contact
- abuse@uoregon.edu
- Registered
- 1994-07-02
- Last changed
- 2026-09-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3701
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS3701
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere