[HN Gopher] An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS
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An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS
Author : rsecora
Score : 19 points
Date : 2024-10-24 15:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (quantum5.ca)
| immibis wrote:
| If you want to really use BGP without operating a real part of
| the internet, go and sign up for DN42. It's a pretend Internet
| built using Wireguard VPNs as if they were physical links.
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| One difference from the real internet: since traffic volume is
| relatively small and no money is exchanged, there's not really a
| distinction between transit and peering - you could do peering-
| only if you wanted to, but mostly everyone provides transit to
| all their peers, making the network a completely unstructured
| mesh (other than the large number of stub ASes who never bothered
| to get more than one peer!)
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