No more new BGP tunnels from HE for private use, known alternatives?

[codebreaker2015]

Hi,
i found out that HE has stopped allowing new BGP tunnels.
They now request 500$/month for such a tunnel.

As a private systemadministrator, just running my own AS and PI Space for my owncloud and mailserver at home and some education, this is nothing i can pay.

Does anybody know about other tunnel providers with a BGP peering, so i can extend my ASN again with a second upstream?

under https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_IPv6-Tunnelbrokern there are no more active tunnelbrokers with BGP sessions listed.

Regards
Daniel

[Abchosters]

Hello,

You can try https://www.4ixp.com/, or renting a small VPS via Vultr.

[eancode]

Hello,
check out

• https://www.tunnelbroker.ch/ - GRE and SIT support
• https://tb.netassist.ua/ - SIT only
• https://freetransit.ch/ - GRE and SIT
• https://internet.nat.moe/ - SIT

This is what I use.

[sesse]

I tried 4ixp. The documentation was confusing and incomplete, but I eventually managed to peer with their route server. That only gave me ~20 prefixes, though; it sent me to https://www.as60474.net/ (present on 4ixp) for transit. I set up a peering against them, but the BGP session just kept on resetting the connection immediately after hello. The email told me to send email to support@as60474.net, which does not exist (the email itself comes from noreply@as60474.net). Eventually I found a different address on the page, and sent the same email there. No reply, but suddenly, after a few days, the peering went up.

However, this was worse than nothing, as all traffic was blackholed; it went from 60474's server to the IXP, back again and from there into the void. So anything not using Happy Eyeballs was just broken.  took down the session. I hope HE will get the Frankfurt node working again, because that was my only connection and even existing BGP users cannot add more tunnels :-)

[schaef350]

In the US a newer option that has come along is Core Transit.  They offer static route tunnels as well as BGP-enabled tunnels.

L2TP and GRE options from what I've seen.  They will also do BGP sessions without advertisements so if you want to consume a full routing table to experiment in a lab they can do that as well which I thought was interesting.