[ixpmanager] Adding a Reseller Port

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Paul,

Firstly, we have some documentation here:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/wiki/Reseller-Functionality

The reseller system as it is implemented is based on LONAP's / INEX's 
requirements / situation where we have 'fan out' switches for resold 
members.

The kit we designed this for did not support virtual ethernet interfaces 
so the use of a fan out switch was required. These switches essentially 
take a multiplex feed from a reseller where each member is individually 
.1q tagged. It then switches each resold member to a dedicated output 
port with a 1-1 connection (and stripped tag) with our peering switches.

So, a resold member just sees their peering port as normal and is none 
the wiser. When adding ports, you do it as normal but additionally 
select a fanout port in addition to the peering port.

Resellers see additional ports:

  - their large input port;
  - the fanout / output ports.

Note that in our situation, we own and operate the fanout switches which 
are added to IXP Manager and are queried by SNMP / MRTG as usual.

  - Barry


On 20/06/2014 20:42, Paul Emmons wrote:
> Hi – We are extending our fabric to another datacenter.  We are
> connecting to them over a 10g MPLS where we will create a vpls for each
> member at that site.  This datacenter will be doing the layer2 switching
> function.
>
> I am a bit lost here with the ixp-manager configs. From a graphing
> standpoint I am only concerned about the ram 10g port
>
> I have resellers turned on in the API.  I have created an account for
> the datacenter as a reseller.  The datacenter’s port show up as a
> reseller port and on the Physical Connection I can setup 1 vlan and set
> of ip addresses.
>
> How do I assign a second customer of the datacenter and add ip addresses?
>
> I take it should do a fan out port and create a separate vlan for each
> but that will get messy in the long run. (But I’m not worried about
> traffic stats per customer there via MRTG)
>
> What is the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks- Paul
>
>
>
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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
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