Autonomous system
AS9486 KMITL-AP King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Education APNIC
Summary
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)
education university research legacy
AS9486 (KMITL-AP) is held by King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, a public research university in the Lat Krabang district on the eastern edge of Bangkok. KMITL is one of Thailand's principal engineering and technology institutions, with faculties spanning engineering, architecture, science, IT, agricultural technology and medicine.
What it's used for
The routing table makes this an unusually clean case: the AS originates 65,536 IPv4 addresses from just 2 prefixes — 161.246.0.0/16 and a /17 covering its lower half. That is a full legacy class-B, held and announced by the institute itself. The /17 alongside the /16 is a routine more-specific, typically used to steer part of the campus over a different upstream or to blunt hijacks of the covering aggregate.
Two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6. A network holding 65k addresses with two peers is not a carrier of any kind: the address count comes from an early allocation, not from scale of transit business. This is a self-numbered campus AS carrying the institute's own staff, students, labs and public-facing services, taking transit from its academic upstream (Thai universities are generally fed by UniNet) and originating one aggregate for the whole campus.
Notable
- A
/16for a single campus is a marker of an early allocation. Address blocks that size were routinely handed to universities in the pre-CIDR-scarcity era and are rarely reissued today. - The complete absence of an IPv6 announcement is notable for a research-and-education network.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS38040 | TOT Public Company Limited | 64 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TH | Thailand | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9486- Registry name
- KMITL-AP
- Registrant
- King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
- Abuse contact
- kkakhari@kmitl.ac.th
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9486
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 42 naming AS9486
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: 442 networks and 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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