BGP/Quick Start

What this page is

This is an orientation stub for BGP-based 44Net participation. A full end-to-end quick start procedure is not published yet.

What you can do today

• Use Ways to Connect to confirm BGP is the right operating model.
• Make sure your network already operates BGP-capable edge routing and has a stable tunnel or transit plan.
• Start account and eligibility prerequisites in Getting started and Portal Sign Up.
• Review Routing and connectivity for routing concepts and decision points.
• Ask implementation questions in Community and mailing lists.

What this page will cover

• Prerequisites: ASN, policy ownership, and upstream coordination.
• Address assignment scope and route advertisement boundaries.
• Session design, failover patterns, and filtering expectations.
• Validation and troubleshooting checklist.
• Operational hygiene for changes and incident response.

Related pages

• Ways to Connect
• Getting started
• Routing and connectivity
• Request Address Space
• Governance
• Policies
• Community and mailing lists
• How Connect, IPIP Mesh, and BGP fit together

Contribute / Next steps

If you can share a proven deployment path, capture topology, BGP edge role, filtering assumptions, and rollback strategy. Add that material through Contributing so this stub can be upgraded to a real Quick Start.

Older docs and notes

Earlier pages that may still be useful:

• Routing your allocation via BGP
• Announcing your allocation directly
• Why can’t I announce my allocation directly?
• SWIP
• NSP Details
• See Archive for more.