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Looking for community to peer BGP with at home

General Discussion by prague1983 6 replies 467 views
prague1983

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btw I use Arch

8 #1

Community to peer BGP with at home

I have my ASN (draft application, 42xx range) and a /48 from my RIR. Running BIRD 2.0.12 on a ThinkPad T480 with a 4G failover. Very normal setup.

I want REAL BGP experience before I ask my employer to let me touch their routers. DN42 feels like LARPing. No offense to DN42 people. But it is LARPing.

What I need:

  • Someone who will actually send me routes
  • Someone who will not mind when I break things (I will break things)
  • IPv6 strongly preferred, IPv4 okay if you have spare /30

I can offer: a route collector node, endless tcpdump files, and enthusiastic incompetence.

Location: EU timezone, fiber to the building.

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Doug

Member

New Jersey

#2

"enthusiastic incompetence" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
AZ

Member

#3

Actually basically you can try route collectors first they will accept your routes but not send any back(´・ω・｀) very sad experience

DN42 is not LARPing for config practice basically but for real feeling of route propagation you need real peer

hankels

Member

52 VPS and counting

#4

BGP.

What matters is $/prefix/RAM. You are overthinking this.

List of route collectors that will give you ASN practice:

  • RIPE RIS
  • RouteViews
  • Isolario (if they still exist?)

None send you full tables though. For that you need a friend or a job.

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
YuriDavid

Member

4 #5

- real peering
- live session
- I can do this
- EU based
- ASxxxx (my real one)
- IPv6 + legacy
- NOTE: I filter at 500k prefixes
- WARNING: you will see real internet routing
- including the broken parts
- ---
- what I need from you
- working BIRD config
- no copy-paste from DN42 wiki
- I will check
- ---
- contact
- DM for WireGuard endpoint

indentation is not optional
GR

Member

#6

The real trick is finding someone patient enoguh to deal wth your frist config. I broke a peering session for 6 hours becaus I forgot to set nexthop self. No apolgoies. Runs together sometimes. You figure it out he says.

adam20

Member

Ex-Abuse Desk

#7

What's the 4G failover? Usb modem or wwan card

reported. resolved. repeat.

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