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> o far we haven't made use of it though as it's still a bit tricky to find providers that will announce your addresses (without asking a hefty amount of money for it).

Vultr can do so https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/ for no additional cost.



Thanks! I'm aware of them, but you need two peers to be able to announce your IP space (multi-homing requirement). AWS actually also allows you to bring your own IPs, so we might indeed go Vultr+AWS for now.


It’s only the RIR which requests proof you will multi-home and you must have been able to say to which AS you would peer to get the /22, since it’s a question RIPE asks as standard and the analyst will have considered in approving your application.

BGP itself doesn’t care at all. Announce the entire block from one “region” in Vultr, or split it out with a /24 in four different ones. It’ll work just fine.


I dont think the multihoming requirement works like that. Either Vultr or AWS would fulfill it, as they each certainly would be advertising the block out several redundant ISP paths, thus fulfilling the multihoming justification...


Nope, RIPE really requires two different ASNs / peering partners on their ASN application form.


You don't need your own ASN to announce IP space. The upstream can do it for you.


This is untrue. You don't need multi-homing to announce IP space.




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