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Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing


How I obtained my own AS number and IPv6 prefix, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, and built a tunnel overlay to bring globally routable addresses to servers that already have provider-assigned IPv6 - using dual-FIB policy routing to make both coexist.

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