Newb question

[Kurt Buff]

Nice, concise.

Thanks!

Kurt

On 2/13/08, Nick Rogness <nick at rogness.net> wrote:
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> On 2/8/08, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
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> > 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.
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>   1) talk to your providers to see if they will BGP peer with you
>     - Get their ASN and ARIN Organization Names
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>   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.
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>   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!!!!!
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>    4)Coordinate time with Providers to turn up BGP
>      - you can do them one at a time.
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>    5) Turn BGP peering up with provider on the phone (not a VoIP phone)
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