Lease a new IPv6 range

Now I have my ASN, I wanted to have a larger range to announce subnets in different part of the world or do some testing without breaking the “core” IP range.

I went for Scaleblade for a /44 IPv6 range, it offers 16 /48 ranges for ~10£ per year, which is cheaper than my ASN and my /48 PA range. Something to be aware of, the IPv6 range you lease is a PA range, so the range does not really belongs to you.

To lease the subnet it is pretty forward, you create an account, fill with your information, order the subnet, and pay.

Configure the subnet

To configure the subnet, you have to use the scaleblade customet portal.
Then on your subnet configuration page, you may find this:

You need to define all the field it asks you: network name, description, organization, admin contact, tech contact, maintainer, and the country of the subnet.

The organization, contacts and maintainer are the IDs you created/were assigned while you created your first RIPE objects.

Once these information are submitted, you can go to the RIPE database, in the “My resources” section, you will see your new PA subnet with the mention ALLOCATED-BY-LIR.

Divide the subnet

In my case, I want to divide the subnet in lower allocations to be able to use them wherever I want, try BGP services, or may be in a long time anycast (who knows).

The plan

In my head, I thought about making 2 sub-allocations: one for my home, one for my LIR BGP VPS; and keep my LIR’s /48.

The /48 will stays the same, announced on the same router, routed to the same place, VMs, while the new subnet will be split in /64 (need to renumber to match the /56 standard) for my home network, and my home VMs. (I have two sites)

Create the ROA (RPKI) entry

Since I didn’t find the delegation on the customer panel, I decided to not really worry and go for the quick and working way: use their own RPKI.

On the subnet configuration page, you can find a “ROAs” tab.

You’ll need to create a new ROA, by clicking on “Add ROA”. Then it asks you some information as such as the prefix, the ASN and the max length.

Personally, I did very specific ROA, each inet6num has their very own ROA.

I didn’t try it, but you might be able to add the entire /44.

Create RIPE database inet6num

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Create the route6

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Announce

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