thinking about bgp

content/blog/2023-03-21-amprnet-bgp-announce.md

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+---
+layout: page
+title: "Announcing your shiny new AMPRNet BGP allocation" 
+description: "A crash course on BGP for radio people"
+date: 2023-03-21
+tags: radio
+draft: true
+extra:
+  auto_center_images: true
+  excerpt: "This post is a quick guide to announcing your shiny new AMPRNet BGP allocation"
+---
+
+So, you got yourself a shiny new [AMPRNet](https://ampr.org) BGP allocation. What's next?
+
+Well, from experience, many people choose to email me next asking for advice. This post is that advice, now in *:sparkles:easily Google-able form!:sparkles:*
+
+A surprising number of people seem to request BGP allocations without understanding what BGP is in the first place, so, lets start there.
+
+## An ultra-crash course to BGP
+
+The internet *inter-networks networks*. Or, in less confusing terms: the internet is a broad term for how network **A** can communicate with networks **B** and **C**.
+
+![](/images/posts/amprnet-bgp-announce/internet_1.svg)

static/graphs/timeline.dot

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-digraph {
-
-    y2008;
-    y2008 -> piano;
-
-    y2008 -> y2010;
-    y2010 -> drums;
-    drums -> amped;
-
-    y2010 -> y2012;
-    y2012 -> killer_hamsters;
-    amped -> killer_hamsters;
-    y2012 -> drum_comps;
-    drums -> drum_comps;
-
-}

static/images/posts/amprnet-bgp-announce/internet_1.drawio

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templates/page.html

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 {% include "components/heading-card.html" %}
 {% endblock page_start %}
 {% block content %}
-<h1 style="margin-bottom:0;padding-bottom:0;">{{page.title}}</h1>
+<h1 style="margin-bottom:0;padding-bottom:0;text-align:left;">{{page.title}}</h1>
 {% if page.description %}
-<em>{{page.description}}</em>
+<em style="text-align:left;">{{page.description}}</em>
 <br>
 {% endif %}
 <br>