Get routed IP addresses delivered to your home or business network via BGP. Announce assigned prefixes, control your traffic routing, and maintain portable addressing for your projects.
What You Get
- IP Address Block: Receive your own (small) IPv4 or IPv6 address allocation
- BGP Announcements: Learn to announce your prefixes to the internet
- Route Control: Practice traffic engineering and failover scenarios
- Multi-homing: Understand how to connect to multiple providers
- Address Portability: Keep your IPs even if you change providers
Learning Objectives
- ✓ Understanding IP address allocation and management
- ✓ BGP route announcement best practices
- ✓ Prefix filtering and route aggregation
- ✓ Failover
- ✓ Traffic engineering with BGP attributes
- ✓ Failover and redundancy strategies
Technical Details
- Routed multiple IP addresses to your home
- Must understand basic concepts of routing, WireGuard, and BGP
- Internal ASN only
Requirements
- BGP Capable Device: You must have a router or firewall that supports BGP (Cisco, Juniper, MikroTik, pfSense, VyOS, etc.)
- NAT Compatibility: Your device must be able to establish outbound BGP sessions (TCP port 179) through NAT. If you need to bypass NAT or require assistance, we can use WireGuard tunneling. Please contact us and explain what you require.
- Static Public IP: While not required, a static public IP on your WAN connection is recommended for stability
- Firewall Configuration: Ability to permit outbound TCP connections on port 179 for BGP