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Are you able to recommend any reputable brokers that offer IPv4 addresses for a price suitable for individuals or small businesses? I only need a few addresses

• icedchai 8y ago
  No, sorry. I got my block for free during the early years of the commercial internet. You need a /24 (256 IP block) for it to be globally routable. If you want to "own" a few addresses to play with, it is not technically possible. If you want a small block, you should just get a VPS that supports multiple IPs and tunnel them back to your location.
• jonny_storm 8y ago
  Be aware that there are caveats in this approach. First, a /24 or larger range is compulsory for multi-provider BGP, which is, itself, compulsory for dynamic advertisement in the way you want. Second, broker ranges are only suitable for your use case if they are allocations rather than reassignments. Third, even when a broker has reassignable ranges, they need to then use detailed reassignment rather than simple reassignment for your new block. Otherwise, you will be unable to announce prefixes to providers requiring proof of ownership. Please refer to https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html for detailed information on the SWIP process. In every recent case I've seen (over the last six years), no broker has had ranges larger than /24 for reassignment. Of course, you can do with just a /24, but the justification process has also grown somewhat more stringent, as a pure traffic engineering justification ("We need BGP; here is why.") is no longer enough, in my experience.