Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 16/12/09 14:55, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Aarno Aukia wrote: offer that option (it doesn't). Becoming a LIR at the current juncture is prohibitive because of fees alone. and becoming an LIR doesn't guarantee you'll get an allocation of IPs either I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Aarno Aukia wrote: It's no problem with 2GB RAM. We are doing BGP, multihoming etc and became LIR. It's quite a Thanks -- I've learned a few things since, and it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to run BGP even if my hoster (Hetzner) would offer

Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-16 Thread Evgeny Yurchenko
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Aarno Aukia wrote: need to get an ASN and (a pair of) BGP-speaking routers talking to at I think even ASN which was formerly free will have a yearly fee starting with 2010. least 2 upstreams. An upstream is at

Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-16 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 17/12/09 3:35 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: It's a pity that given a chance for automatic tamper-proof allocation (e.g. from WGS 84 position fixes, generalized to InterPlaNet) IPv6 chose to not pursue that route but decided to keep central control and monetization of a very large resource that could

Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:44:51AM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: That makes no sense at all. IP allocation isn't about the latitude and longitude of the building your DSL connection terminates in, it is about routing tables which need to be kept to a reasonable size. Though this will out

[pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
Dear lazyweb, I'm thinking about starting tinkering with BGP, probably on pfSense. Should I at all bother if the firewall only has 2 GByte of RAM? What's the procedure, do I contact my LIR whether they would give me IPv4/IPv6 space they trust me to administer with BGP? What kind of