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A LIR, in contrast to a RIR is a Local internet Registry, these are people who have accounts with RIRs, and downsell and assign resources to smaller groups of people, generally users of a specific ISP, or a small group of people. LIRs are effectively always ch...

Hello! Welcome to Beako's learn networking page, Today I'm going to assume you are here as you wish to get an ASN for starting your journey, and assuming this is the case, welcome! Networking can absolutely be a fun way to kill time or grow or drive you insan...

To obtain resources like ASNs and IP Resources, you will need to create a RIPE NCC account. You can sign up for one here. simply fill in your user details (first and last name, email, password etc) and within a few seconds you will get an email asking you to c...

What is a ASN/Autonomous System? The internet, being the thing you are using to read this page right now is made up of several smaller networks, that work together under one globally agreed upon routing policy, hence the the name InterNet (interconnected netw...

Should you need to for whatever reason change the settings of your RIPE NCC account, you can do so here.  Edit RIPE NCC User profile

To create a role/Maintainer pair, please go here and fill out the form. First, you need to pick a name for your maintainer, it can be anything, but it needs to end in -MNT for it to be valid. After doing this, you will also need to create a name for your role...

Another important and required role for being assigned ASNs and Internet Number resources is an organization object. (You don't have to be a company to make this) this object lists out your networks information, contact info and management. To create one, you ...

A RIR is a regional internet registry, they generally service a continent or large regional body of land, and are typically used by very large ISPs or groups that have a specific need for direct IP assignment from the top. Generally you would go to a RIR when ...

An IPv4 address is a 32 bit decimal dot separated number used for identifying computers on a network. They are formatted with up to 3 digits per octet boundary, and each address has 4 octet boundaries. EX: 23.133.248.1 Currently, and for a long time there h...

An IPv6 address is a 128 bit hexadecimal number, and is the second major in-use revision of the TCP-IP protocol. It's far more common than IPv4, and is generally cheap or even free to get depending on where you go for the addresses. An IPv6 address is format...

An important object in the RIPE database is the AS-SET, this is typically what upstream providers and carriers use to generate prefix lists and filters for your ASN/network. To create one you should go here and input the following information MNT-BY which sho...

A person role is generally used for providing information about who maintains an object in more detail, generally needed for AS-SETs and some other objects. Thankfully it's super easy to create one! Just go here and fill out the info! MNT-BY should already be...

Getting an ASN via ARIN (or any LIR, really) is more difficult and almost always more expensive than doing it through a LIR. However, going via a RIR, Like ARIN means your ASN isn't beholden to a LIRs terms, and is generally more resilient to possibly being re...

This page will detail how to create an ARIN user account! To do so, you will need to go here and fill out the sign-up form. First line is email, put whatever email you like, though a lot of people tend to use a generic NOC email for there domain, like noc@bea...

To modify your ARIN user account, you should go here and view the overview, changing username or email/2fa requires you to click in the top section and select actions, then what you wish to do to your accounts security/core settings Profile information is in ...

Welcome to this new section of Beako Learn! This will explain the general process for getting IPv6 from your LIR or downstream service provider. The process varies slightly but in general it will follow this procedure. Before you do this, you should know at l...

Provider Independent address space, with contrast to Provider Allocated IP space is directly assigned to an end user, like yourself or your org, vs your LIR! the advantages of this are that you have less conditions attached to the use of your IP address space ...

This page will outline the differences between PA (Provider Allocated) and PI (Provider Independent) See a more detailed description of each below! Provider Independent Provider Allocated Provider Allocated Provider Independent Can be moved b...

Provider allocated [PA] Space is space that is allocated to you from your LIR or providers stock of IP addresses, so the chain follows the pattern of RIPE NCC --> LIR --> you. Vs PI (Provider independent) space that goes RIPE NCC --> you. PA space can have co...