From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 18:13:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C756916A417 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A67713C4CE for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j2so100496tid.3 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.12.5 with SMTP id 5mr62868ybl.128.1202924665210; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.205.8 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:44:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:44:25 -0700 From: "Nick Rogness" To: "Kurt Buff" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newb question X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:13:06 -0000 On 2/8/08, Kurt Buff wrote: > > All, > > My company is getting a fractional DS3 in the near future, and I've > acquired a Sangoma a301 card to handle the interface. > > We're retaining one of the T1s we currently have, from a different > provider, and we're intent on using BGP to manage the two connections. > > Does anyone have good pointers to tutorials or howtos on setting up > OpenBGP for a newb like me who has never done this before? > > I've got the ARIN web site open now, looking through the docs on > getting our ASN, but it's all new to me, and I could use a little > help. 1) talk to your providers to see if they will BGP peer with you - Get their ASN and ARIN Organization Names 2) Get stuff from ARIN: a) Register a POC (POC Template) - You will get a POC handle back ARIN b) Register your Organization (Organization Template) - You will need the POC handle from step a. - You will get a ORG ID back from ARIN c) Request an ASN (AS Number request template) - You will need the info from #1, step a & step b - You will "hopefully" get an ASN number from ARIN. 3) Choose a routing deamon, zebra or openbgp - You will need to setup them up with info from #1 & #2 - Make sure you understand everything, BGP can be dangerous - Please filter announcements and source addresses!!!!! 4)Coordinate time with Providers to turn up BGP - you can do them one at a time. 5) Turn BGP peering up with provider on the phone (not a VoIP phone)