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Re: How to begin making my own ISP?
From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:42:18 +0000
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:10:29PM -0400, hasserw () hushmail com wrote:
No one replied with any useful information. I guess no one wants competition on this list? Pretty poor tactic. On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:55:01 -0400 hasserw () hushmail com wrote:I want to begin making my own ISP, mainly for high speed servers and such, but also branching out to residential customers. I'm going to be in Germany for the next school year (probably either Frankfurt am Main or Berlin); any suggestions on what sort of classes I can take there that will be in English and will teach me all I need to know on how to build and manage my own ISP, AS, etc? Thanks.
"... First, You make a roux!" - Julia Childs Clearly its not a easy/simple as it used to be but its not rocket science either. you have to decide where you want to start; eyeballs, content, or get others to defray the cost of yur access. Once you select which target you are after, then you can pick your gear. I am going to presume OSS and fully depricated kit to keep your costs down and to boost your learning skills. On the presumption you want to run BGP I suggest you invest in some colo space at/near a public internet exchange w/ a large number of players.. SIX was good, Telx was good, and the S&D pops were as well - at least four/five years ago. slip you old HP laptop into the rack and buy a cross connect to the exchange fabric. replace the OS on the laptop w/ FreeBSD or CentOS, from ports, add SSH and Quagga. Chat up potential peers at the exchange and see whom will peer w/ you using a Private ASN. Contact ARIN or third party broker to lease some IP space and an ASN. If you can't find/justify the resources 'cause your just starting out, there is private space and private ASN. Configure Quagga w/ the obtained ASN and announce the IP prefix(es). TaDa ... You are an ISP! /bill
Current thread:
- How to begin making my own ISP? hasserw (Sep 10)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Charles N Wyble (Sep 10)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Henry Yen (Sep 16)
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- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? hasserw (Sep 16)
- RE: How to begin making my own ISP? Eric Wieling (Sep 16)
- RE: How to begin making my own ISP? Matlock, Kenneth L (Sep 16)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Matthew Kaufman (Sep 19)
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- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Jima (Sep 16)
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- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? bmanning (Sep 16)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Warren Kumari (Sep 19)
- RE: How to begin making my own ISP? Eric Wieling (Sep 16)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Justin M. Streiner (Sep 16)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Don Gould (Sep 20)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Julien Gormotte (Sep 21)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Don Gould (Sep 21)
- Re: How to begin making my own ISP? Charles N Wyble (Sep 16)