Is there any current effort underway to make BGP more accessible, user-friendly, or "plug and play?" Anything that might address some of the more technically demanding aspects of multihoming?
Simple BGP config is not that demanding. If you're going to connect a device to the public internet with BGP, it should require a basic level of competence. CPE vendors might set up web pages that request IPs and an ASN for you.
Sets up ROAs, IRR, and the CPE, start to finish.
None of this stuff should be 'ez-mode' for the uninformed user. Heck, informed users make a mess of it a lot of the time. Home install kits and plug and play doesn't work at a certain point. Stop trying to shoehorn it. On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM Brian Knight via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Is there any current effort underway to make BGP more accessible, user-friendly, or "plug and play?" Anything that might address some of the more technically demanding aspects of multihoming?
Quick Google says no, but maybe someone has more awareness.
I'm pipe-dreaming BGP multihoming becoming as simple as connecting two Internet links to a CPE, with no reduction in MTU. No SD-WAN, no tunnels, no NAT. Works over any kind of link: 5G, wifi, GPON, cable, fiber, carrier pigeon.
CPE vendors might set up web pages that request IPs and an ASN for you. Sets up ROAs, IRR, and the CPE, start to finish.
Maybe there's a new protocol where the carrier auto-generates a BGP multihoming token and sends it to the user in the order docs. User sets the token on the CPE interface facing that provider. Successful negotiation lets the customer announce their prefix and ASN. CPE and carrier manage it all, no network staff needed.
-Brian
On 2026-06-21 19:29, Dorn Hetzel via NANOG wrote:
Sure, have every hotdog cart run BGP, pretty soon we'll need 64 bit AS numbers :)
On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Most pizza shops aren't going to be able to manage BGP.
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