[ixpmanager] Provision peers without assigning physical interface

[Barry O'Donovan (INEX)]

Hi Thomas,

A number of things key off a physical interface being in a ‘Connected’ 
state.

A way around this is to create a ‘dummy’ switch with lots of ports and 
just assign the next port to members.

  - Barry


------ Original Message ------
>From "Thomas Fritz via ixpmanager" <ixpmanager at inex.ie>
To "INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List" <ixpmanager at inex.ie>
Cc "Thomas Fritz" <thomas.fritz at rheintal-ix.net>
Date 09/09/2025 12:02:22
Subject [ixpmanager] Provision peers without assigning physical 
interface

>Hi!
>
>Is there a designated way to provision peers without assigning a physical interface?
>
>In that particualare case, some other tools are in use to orchestrate, document and gather statistics of the physical ports,
>but we would like to use all the rest of the features provided by IXPManager.
>
>Thanks,
>Thomas
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