Successful surgery on my BGP core for AS201379 done.

Got a third edge-router online, reorganized local-preferences and optimizing packet flows for efficiency and cost.

Monitoring with Grafana is perfectly fine. RIPE Atlas measurement looks amazing for central Europe 🙂

Great connectivity for my 2a06:9801:1c::/48

Looking Glass: https://lg.hofstede.it
Peering information: https://hofstede.it/as201379.html

#networking #bgp #ipv6 #freebsd #frr #ripe

@Larvitz How did you start managing a BGP node, btw? Is this a hobby of yours or job related?

@fallbackerik It was something that I did professionally in the past (previous job). Right now that's just a hobby of mine. Running my own mini-isp for my personal services.

Have written several blog-articles about it in the past months ...

- https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/

- https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-going-multi-homed-with-ibgp-and-three-transits/

- https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-joining-an-ixp-with-a-third-edge-router/

Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing

How I obtained my own AS number and IPv6 prefix, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, and built a tunnel overlay to bring globally routable addresses to servers that already have provider-assigned...

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