OT: VPS with Routed IP space

[jared at puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)]

> On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:45 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Alex Buie <alex.buie at frozenfeline.net> wrote:
>> Anybody know of or have recommendations for providers of small
>> VPS-line boxen (or alternative solutions) to serve as GRE endpoints?
>> (for a small amount of IP addresses, /29 or /28 at most)
>> 
>> I am finding a lot of places that will give you extra IPs on the box
>> itself (oftentimes out of the provider's own larger unsubnetted
>> prefix) but I am looking more for a setup with a single IP on the box
>> and a prefix routed to it.
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> You can usually deconfigure the extra IP's on the box and send them
> down the tunnel. At worst you do a little proxy arp to tell the router
> that your vps still serves those addresses.
> 
> You'll find providers are reluctant to assign /28's and /29's to
> low-dollar VPS services.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Zachary Giles <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about VPS providers who will do BGP... Do they exist?
> 
> They do but it's BYOA and $10/mo generally doesn't cut it.


Nat Morris has been doing this, hereâ??s a presentation he has on this
topic:

http://www.slideshare.net/natmorris/anycast-on-a-shoe-string

- Jared