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bgp ip transit info
Getting your IPs from RIPE/ARIN etc. takes a lot of time and back and forth. Prepare at least for a month if you need to wait for someone else to transfer the IPs to you.
The obtained subnet can be advertised from your server(s) via goBGP or similar. There are 2 ways to do it dynamic or static BGP routing. You need to tell your server provider which one you want.
In dynamic setup you use your own AS# then you would setup BGP, and create a route object with ripe/arin for your ipv4 and ipv6 and specify the origin as your AS#. That would be dynamic routing as you could advertise or remove it from the provider on your own.
If you want it routed under our ASN of the server provider (more statically as they would have to add/remove it manually), they would create the route object for your ipv4 and ipv6 or you can, and specify Origin as ASN# of the provider, and they would simply route the ips to your server directly.
Here's an example after creating route objects in RIPE
You also need to add the ROA objects:
Then you can query it in the database “Query Database”, by entering the IPv6 or v4 subnet.
The minimum routing for ipv6 is a /48 for BGP. typically a /64 is assigned to your own customers. for ipv4 it is a /24 for minimum for BGP routing.
So make sure you have your route objects created for the /24 ipv4 and at least a /48 or larger for the ipv6 block that you want to advertise with your ASN as the registered origin.
Provider will add your ASN to their AS-Set so you can advertise the prefixes under your ASN through the provider. It sometimes will take up to 48hrs for upstreams to see your prefixes and allow it, so the sooner you get those route objects created the better. Example: https://www.radb.net/query?keywords=as-tzulo
If you only have one location, then you can advertise the whole /32 block. if you have more then 1x location then you can split it to /48s or /40 or /36 etc. so you have large block in each location. if you do split it smaller then a /32, then you should create that route object as well to match.
gobgp software example
A working BGP session with gobgp software.
You need to allow inbound port 179 in the firewall for both v4 and v6.
For IPv6 you need to have that set up on the network interface as well:
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether a0:36:9f:d6:67:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 198.44.157.3/29 brd 198.44.157.7 scope global noprefixroute eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2607:9000:600:24::2/64 scope global noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::a236:9fff:fed6:67c0/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
gobgpd.conf:
[global.config]
as = 203619
router-id = "198.44.157.3"
[[neighbors]]
[neighbors.config]
neighbor-address = "198.44.157.1"
peer-as = 11878
[[neighbors]]
[neighbors.config]
neighbor-address = "2607:9000:600:24::1"
peer-as = 11878
router-id should be the IP address of your interface (eth0)
as is your assigned ASN number.
neighbor-address is the IP of the peer, provider should give you this info.
peer-as is peer ASN, also given by provider.
After starting gobgp you should see the session is established:
# gobgp neighbor Peer AS Up/Down State |#Received Accepted 198.44.157.1 11878 1d 19:27:31 Establ | 9 9 2607:9000:600:24::1 11878 00:13:06 Establ | 1 1
Check the routing table
# gobgp global rib -a ipv4
Network Next Hop AS_PATH Age Attrs
* 0.0.0.0/0 198.44.157.1 11878 36236 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 23.234.84.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 23.234.85.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 23.234.86.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 23.234.87.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 89.124.253.0/24 0.0.0.0 00:06:23 [{Origin: ?}]
* 198.44.132.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 198.44.140.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 198.44.157.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
* 198.54.132.0/24 198.44.157.1 11878 00:06:22 [{Origin: i}]
# gobgp global rib -a ipv6
Network Next Hop AS_PATH Age Attrs
* ::/0 2607:9000:600:24::1 11878 36236 00:06:27 [{Origin: i}]
* 2a03:c040::/48 :: 00:06:24 [{Origin: ?}]
Now you can assing IPs from the subnet you own to the loopback interface. It should work even though its not on the eth0 interface.
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 89.124.253.5/32 scope global lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2a03:c040::5/128 scope global
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Sometimes you might get an IP address from the private space from the provider like 10.255.0.2 for your side of the BGP session. You need to add it (via ip, nmcli etc.) to your main interface for it to work e.g.
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 89.124.253.5/32 scope global lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2a03:c040::5/128 scope global
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 5c:b9:01:90:1c:e8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 45.128.135.226/32 scope global noprefixroute eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 10.255.0.2/30 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
...
# gobgp neighbor
Peer AS Up/Down State |#Received Accepted
10.255.0.1 206804 00:00:55 Establ | 1 1
fd00:136::1 206804 never Active | 0 0
Checking propagation
Here's an example of Tzulo server provider which advertises to multiple upstreams https://bgp.he.net/AS11878#_graph4
https://bgp.tools/as/11878#connectivity
which has multiple arrows pointing to upstreams.
Tested on
- gobgp_version: 4.2.0
- January 2026.