[144668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to begin making my own ISP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Sep 16 14:43:14 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:42:18 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: hasserw@hushmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20110916181029.24C11E671D@smtp.hushmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:10:29PM -0400, hasserw@hushmail.com wrote:
> No one replied with any useful information. I guess no one wants
> competition on this list? Pretty poor tactic.
>
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:55:01 -0400 hasserw@hushmail.com wrote:
> >I want to begin making my own ISP, mainly for high speed servers
> >and such, but also branching out to residential customers. I'm
> >going to be in Germany for the next school year (probably either
> >Frankfurt am Main or Berlin); any suggestions on what sort of
> >classes I can take there that will be in English and will teach me
> >
> >all I need to know on how to build and manage my own ISP, AS, etc?
> >
> >Thanks.
>
"... First, You make a roux!" - Julia Childs
Clearly its not a easy/simple as it used to be but its not rocket science either.
you have to decide where you want to start; eyeballs, content, or get others to defray
the cost of yur access.
Once you select which target you are after, then you can pick your gear. I am going to
presume OSS and fully depricated kit to keep your costs down and to boost your learning
skills.
On the presumption you want to run BGP I suggest you invest in some colo space at/near
a public internet exchange w/ a large number of players.. SIX was good, Telx was good,
and the S&D pops were as well - at least four/five years ago.
slip you old HP laptop into the rack and buy a cross connect to the exchange fabric.
replace the OS on the laptop w/ FreeBSD or CentOS, from ports, add SSH and Quagga.
Chat up potential peers at the exchange and see whom will peer w/ you using a Private ASN.
Contact ARIN or third party broker to lease some IP space and an ASN. If you can't find/justify
the resources 'cause your just starting out, there is private space and private ASN.
Configure Quagga w/ the obtained ASN and announce the IP prefix(es).
TaDa ... You are an ISP!
/bill
