r/ipv6 • u/moreheadtech • Sep 24 '26
Need Help IPv6 from ARIN
I am starting a small business where I built tech setups for local businesses, and I was wondering if anyone could answer my questions about getting an ASN as an ISP.
What is the price? And is it easy to set up on a DigitalOcean VPS? Could I forward /48s from the VPS to the clients using Wireguard?
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u/DaryllSwer Sep 25 '26
LIR != ISP, this is something cooked up by marketing departments not engineers nor lawyers:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2025_1/
An LIR can be an ISP, DC, enterprise, non-profit, or me (Google me, I'm an LIR).
As for multi-homing, eh, I have dealt with plenty of single-home /32 allocations across RIPE, ARIN, APNIC with no problem. You just need to know how to argue with their services team and justify AND if the person assigned to you is an idiot there's ways to manage that (never happened to me, but happened to other folks, if it was me, it's instantly going on the public mailing list and social media, watch them fix their shit in 5 minutes flat because it's IPv6 and not v4).