BGP at Home: What Happens When You Peer with Your ISP

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of homelabber who is no longer satisfied with port forwarding and dynamic DNS. They want their own IP addresses — a block that belongs to them, that they can announce to the internet themselves, that doesn’t change when they switch ISP and doesn’t sit inside someone else’s allocation. They want, in short, to run BGP. I have done this, and I am here to tell you it is equal parts genuinely useful and gloriously over-engineered for a house.

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BGP at Home: What Happens When You Peer with Your ISP