I became a RIPE LIR! :-)

Early 2025 I’ve decided to become a RIPE member with my own holding (BV, Netherlands) so I could obtain my own ASN and IPv6 PA space.

My goal was to obtain IPv6 space which I could use forever and knowing I would never have to renumber again. Initially I started with PI-space, but that’s limited to a /48.

A /48 is the smallest block you can announce on the internet and I wanted to have something larger, a /40 for example. This would allow me to announce my space from different ASN. As that wasn’t possible I choose to become a RIPE LIR.

On February 27th 2025 I was assigned:

I am currently announcing this ASN from a single Debian Linux (Proxmox) server (Dell R430) running behind AS48635 in Amsterdam.

ipv6 route 2a14:9b80::/32 Null0
ip router-id 2.57.57.4
!
router bgp 212540
 ...
 address-family ipv6 unicast
  redistribute kernel
  redistribute connected
  redistribute static
  neighbor upstream-v6 activate
  neighbor upstream-v6 soft-reconfiguration inbound
  neighbor upstream-v6 route-map upstream-in in
  neighbor upstream-v6 route-map upstream-out out
...

Using Wireguard VPN tunnels I’m routing parts of this subnet to my home(s) and other parts are being used for servers running on my Proxmox server in Amsterdam.

I choose to announce only a /32 and leave the rest free for future use.