Re: [44net] BGP announcement questions ?

Regarding BGP inside the Hamnet... BGP is a routing protocol. That means it can be used to manage routing inside ANY network. The fact that is is used on the public internet does not mean it is used exclusively for that. In the European Hamnet, there are a lot of hosts, in the order of thousands, which need to know how to reach each other. For this purpose, BGP is used internally, to ensure an automatic routing configuration between Hamnet routers. So, as long as you have only one single gateway (your IPIP tunnel) and a single subnet. it is of no relevance to you, since a simple route, like 44.0.0.0/8 via tunnel will do the job and you will rely on your remote tunnel endpoint router to do the proper routing. On the other hand, if you have multiple network connections between multiple subnets, then it becomes useful so that you do not need to manually configure the whole stuff. Internally, in this 44net address space, how we use ASNs is up to us. Fur this reason, an allocation schema has been proposed, and is partly implemented, based on private ASN, so that if somehow BGP announcements "escape" to the wild, they will be dropped. The next step, announcing a public BGP subnet to the internet, is a whole new issue. For this you need to coordinate with Brian Kantor, which is the official administrator/owner of the 44 address space, to allow that (and there is some paperwork involved, from both sides, including your ISP, which has to adopt your 44 subnet into his ASN). Marius, YO2LOJ -----Original Message----- From: Toussaint OTTAVI Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 13:38 To: AMPRNet working group Subject: Re: [44net] BGP announcement questions ? (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Hi, Le 15/02/2016 11:37, Marius Petrescu a écrit : Sorry, but I don't understand that. I never used BGP before. ... _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu http://hamradio.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/44net