OT: VPS with Routed IP space

Wed Feb 25 01:14:40 UTC 2015

never saw that post. right up my alley. Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:45 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Alex Buie <alex.buie at 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)
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > You'll find providers are reluctant to assign /28's and /29's to
> > low-dollar VPS services.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Zachary Giles <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> How about VPS providers who will do BGP... Do they exist?
> >
> > They do but it's BYOA and $10/mo generally doesn't cut it.
>
>
> Nat Morris has been doing this, here’s a presentation he has on this
> topic:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/natmorris/anycast-on-a-shoe-string
>
> - Jared

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