Is there any current effort underway to make BGP more accessible,
user-friendly, or "plug and play?" Anything that might address some of
the more technically demanding aspects of multihoming?
Quick Google says no, but maybe someone has more awareness.
I'm pipe-dreaming BGP multihoming becoming as simple as connecting two
Internet links to a CPE, with no reduction in MTU. No SD-WAN, no
tunnels, no NAT. Works over any kind of link: 5G, wifi, GPON, cable,
fiber, carrier pigeon.
CPE vendors might set up web pages that request IPs and an ASN for you.
Sets up ROAs, IRR, and the CPE, start to finish.
Maybe there's a new protocol where the carrier auto-generates a BGP
multihoming token and sends it to the user in the order docs. User sets
the token on the CPE interface facing that provider. Successful
negotiation lets the customer announce their prefix and ASN. CPE and
carrier manage it all, no network staff needed.
-Brian
On 2026-06-21 19:29, Dorn Hetzel via NANOG wrote:
Sure, have every hotdog cart run BGP, pretty soon we'll need 64 bit AS
numbers :)
On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG <
[email protected]> wrote:
Most pizza shops aren't going to be able to manage BGP.
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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