AS46997 (formerly AS396303) is a network operated by Nato Research. Nato Internet Service is a non-profit project for learning, education and research.
Our goal is to support the ever-growing internet community that wants to experiment and gain hands-on experience with the real world BGP. We provide the following services:
- Free IPv6 Allocation
- Free IPv6 BGP Tunnel
- Free LXC w/ IPv6 BGP temporarily unavailable
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Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our support service at service.nat.moe.
- Dec-21-2020: FCIX port up. We are open for peering.
- Sep-12-2020: We added a new web-based RS. Check it out here.
- Sep-04-2020: We now support Delegated RPKI. You can now run your own CA and manage ROAs yourself.
- Jun-29-2020: We have temporarily stopped accepting new LXC requests.
- May-15-2020: nis-transit incident investigation report: Seattle IPv6 BGP session flapping.
- May-14-2020: NIS mail lists online. Subscribe for services updates and announcements.
- May-12-2020: Seattle PoP hardware maintenance.
- May-11-2020: Our delegated RPKI is ready, powered by Krill. IP space owners may now request ROA signing from us. The self-service signing portal is on the way.
- May-04-2020: ARIN allocated AS46997 to us, we will transition from AS396303.
- Apr-24-2020: We now offer Free LXC and SIT tunnel with BGP.
- Apr-17-2020: Service update (2602:feda:: project): ARIN no longer allows LIRs to create POC or OrgID for another organization. Reallocation is no longer possible for non-ARIN members. We can still reassign IP space if you are not an ARIN member, but you must register with ARIN if you want a reallocation.
Here's a list of Point of Presences of AS46997:
| Location | Port Speed | Service |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle, US | 1Gbps | LXC, LXC (w/ BGP), SIT tunnel, SIT tunnel (w/ BGP) |
| Fremont, US | 10Gbps | |
| Tokyo, JP | 1Gbps | LXC, SIT tunnel |
| Frankfurt, DE | 1Gbps | LXC, LXC (w/ BGP), SIT tunnel, SIT tunnel (w/ BGP) |
| Vancouver, CA | 10Gbps | SIT tunnel, SIT tunnel (w/ BGP) |
| Tseung Kwan O, HK | 1Gbps |
AS46997 has open peering policy, we are willing to peer over any exchange points we have in common.
Our network information:
- ASN: 46997
- AS-SET: AS-NATOLAB
- Policy: Open
Our IX information:
| IXP | Port Speed | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| FCIX | 10Gbps |
206.80.238.112
2001:504:91::112
|
| SIX | 1Gbps |
206.81.81.174
2001:504:16::b795
|
| SIX (9000 MTU) | 1Gbps |
206.81.83.174
2001:504:16:1::b795
|
| KleyReX | 1Gbps |
193.189.82.230
2001:7f8:33::a104:6997:1
|
| LocIX | 1Gbps |
185.1.166.227
2001:7f8:f2:e1::a4:6997:1
|
| UNM-Exch | 10Gbps |
192.34.27.15
2602:ffb1:200::192:34:27:15
|
To peer with us, you must have:
- One or more common Internet Exchange with us.
- A publicly routable ASN.
- Completed ASN record in PeeringDB.
- One or more public routable IPv4 and/or IPv6 address space.
If you meet the criteria above and would like to peer with us, you should respect following rules:
- Only send routes that from your own network, and only announce address space which you are authorized to announce.
- Only send traffic that is destined to routes that we announced to you.
If those rules work for you and you met the criteria - Great, let's peer! Drop an email to noc_at_nat_dot_moe, tell us your desired peering method and your ASN. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Here's a live list of AS46997 customers and upstreams, powered by RIPEstat.
Our current upstreams are:
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We currently provide IP transit services to the following networks:
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And a total of 0 /48 IPv6 spaces we allocated are currently in use.