> > 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?
Simple BGP config is not that demanding. If you're going to connect a device to the public internet with BGP, it should require a basic level of competence. 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. None of this stuff should be 'ez-mode' for the uninformed user. Heck, informed users make a mess of it a lot of the time. Home install kits and plug and play doesn't work at a certain point. Stop trying to shoehorn it. On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM Brian Knight via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >> > >> > >> > >> ----- > >> Mike Hammett > >> Intelligent Computing Solutions > >> > >> Midwest Internet Exchange > >> > >> The Brothers WISP > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7AMX6YN4MRTN7UQ5CQFNYI3KJCKKFJMZ/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MIC6KX6AZKYZ5OWF4YBPG6754POTGOEI/
