--- layout: page title: "I am my own ISP" description: "The next stage in my hobby network" date: 2022-08-17 tags: networking draft: true extra: auto_center_images: true excerpt: I recently started AS398057, a low cost Autonomous System. This post talks about how its going --- Last year, I [dipped my toes in BGP](/blog/amprnet-bgp) while learning how to set up the infrastructure needed to route a public IPv4 address prefix to the world. A lot has changed since then, and I have fallen further into the world of network engineering and backbone routing. At the time of writing my last post, I had been singlehomed on [Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/)'s network via their *byoip* (Bring Your Own IP) plan, and was peering with them using one of their private ASNs.