[ixpmanager] route server template/32bit ASNs

Stefan Kaltenbrunner stefan at kaltenbrunner.cc
Thu Aug 6 08:27:34 IST 2015


Hi all!


We recently deployed IXP-Manager as the management platform for SAIX 
(https://www.saix.at). One thing that pretty quickly came up is the fact 
that the current routeserver templates (we use bird) do not have any 
support for any kind of controlling announcements for 32bit ASNs.
Looking at what other IXPs do there seem to be three different methods 
currently in use:

* static mapping of 32bit ASNs to communities in the 64512 to 65534 
range (mostly smaller/midsized exchanges)
* BGP extended communities (DE-CIX)
* IRRdb/RPSL based outgoing filtering (AMS-IX)

are there any plans of adding any of those concepts to IXP-Manager or 
maybe has somebody already created a template/integrations scripts to 
look at?


regards & thanks for a great platform to kickstart an IXP!

Stefan





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