[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)
        
 (HTM) web link (quantum5.ca)
 (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.
       | 
       | 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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