A practical learning path for operating BGP safely before requesting public Internet number resources or a FreeTransit tunnel.

A public ASN, an IP prefix and a BGP session are production Internet resources. They are not a first BGP laboratory. A mistake can make your own network unreachable, leak routes learned from one provider to another, or announce address space that does not belong to you.

FreeTransit helps community networks obtain and use Internet number resources. We also expect applicants to understand the basic operational responsibility that comes with those resources. You do not need to be an expert, but you should be able to build, filter, verify and monitor a simple BGP setup before it is connected to a public network.