[144674] 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 14:59:35 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:58:36 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <61195.1316199183@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:53:03PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:42:18 -0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com said:
> > Configure Quagga w/ the obtained ASN and announce the IP prefix(es).
>
> > TaDa ... You are an ISP!
>
> Now all you need is a business plan that pays for the rack space. ;)
>
and the Internet Numbering resource fees, the cross connects, power,
spares, ... and if you tak in money, insurance, taxes, accounting,
sys-admin costs (unless this is best-effort service that yu can
"fire & forget" or your paying clients don't care when you are down
for three weeks - looking for replacement kit and the time to configure
it -after- your homework is done...)
But this song isnt about Alice...
/bill
