[178308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: VPS with Routed IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Feb 24 20:04:43 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUw5jcLx5u0HUP3Jj=u77Q76SnQjbOrGAjrrPXjsqEQcA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:04:27 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:45 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Alex Buie =
<alex.buie@frozenfeline.net> wrote:
>> Anybody know of or have recommendations for providers of small
>> VPS-line boxen (or alternative solutions) to serve as GRE endpoints?
>> (for a small amount of IP addresses, /29 or /28 at most)
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>> I am finding a lot of places that will give you extra IPs on the box
>> itself (oftentimes out of the provider's own larger unsubnetted
>> prefix) but I am looking more for a setup with a single IP on the box
>> and a prefix routed to it.
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> Hi Alex,
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> You can usually deconfigure the extra IP's on the box and send them
> down the tunnel. At worst you do a little proxy arp to tell the router
> that your vps still serves those addresses.
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> You'll find providers are reluctant to assign /28's and /29's to
> low-dollar VPS services.
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Zachary Giles <zgiles@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> How about VPS providers who will do BGP... Do they exist?
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> They do but it's BYOA and $10/mo generally doesn't cut it.
Nat Morris has been doing this, here=92s a presentation he has on this
topic:
http://www.slideshare.net/natmorris/anycast-on-a-shoe-string
- Jared=
