Re: 4IXP DOA ?
William Herrin via NANOG <[email protected]>
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Off list so I don't pester people there: On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM vom513 via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > I am what you would call a “basement multihomer”. So as the kids say nowadays - “homelab” (on steroids). To answer your question - IXP presence delivered via VPN. I don’t have the $$$ for physical presence at the moment. My garage is multihomed on the Internet (AS11875) using two local non-BGP service providers and virtual wires out to two BGP service providers. If that's what you're looking for, I can help. IXPs are generally for sharing partial BGP feeds with other networks -- you send traffic that's specifically to their customers to them directly. That's the exchange part of IXP. You don't get a full BGP feed or a default route at an IXP; you only get the routes for the other participants. Hence my confusion about what a virtual wire to an IXP accomplishes for your home lab, since you would need and presumably already have a full BGP feed from somewhere else to cover the routes you don't receive at the IXP. Some IXPs also sell or trade full Internet Transit service on the side, but that's different from the IXP part. Regards, Bill -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HFFEZTU3RXBCLXTIHFXSMCOVGWMQDGAX/