IPv6 and BGP adventure

Hi readers,

This post will be about my ‘adventure’ of getting my own AS number, IPv6 subnet, and peering with Hurricane Electric to announce my IPv6 subnet over a 6to4 tunnel.

I started to chat with someone on Discord about getting my own IPv6 subnet. They’re not that expensive. I got mine from SnapServ. I purchased a /44 IPv6 subnet and an Autonomous System Number.

After having successfully set-up a 6to4 tunnel with Hurricane Electric before, I decided to sign up for a BGP tunnel, so I can use my own IP address space.

I got my ASN and /44 subnet from SnapServ. A /44 IPv6 subnet is 16 /48 subnets, and the /44 is that smallest that they had. It’s very affordable.

My AS currently peers with Hurricane Electric. Though this may change soon, as their support has been ignoring my tickets, twice. There is an update of that coming later.

Currently I’m getting packet drops from their tunnel… So we will see how it goes.

For now: made two tickets, got ignored on both my their support staff.

To be updated..