<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Thanks for explaining how that works.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png"></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/ICSIL"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png"></a><br>
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http://midwest-ix.com/<br><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan@inex.ie><br><b>To: </b>ixpmanager@inex.ie<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:19:39 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ixpmanager] Multiple-IXPs<br><br>Hi Mike,<br><br>On 19/04/2015 14:41, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>> For those facilitating multiple IXPs through a common IXP Manager<br>> installation, how are you facilitating the inter-IXP connectivity?<br><br>Firstly, I'm not sure this feature is being used by anyone. It was <br>sponsored by a single organisation that didn't end up using it in the <br>end (mergers / acquisitions / etc).<br><br>With no active users / sponsors in ~2 years, it needs some TLC.<br><br>> Chances are, it isn't built as resilient as a multiple-location IXP. I'd<br>> imagine anything that's generally available would be sufficient?<br>> SNMP\smokeping\provisioning\S-flow would be the bulk of what goes over<br>> the "wire", correct?<br><br>The design was to use a highly-available web instance of IXP Manager <br>(two locations, master-master MySQL replication).<br><br>Then each individual IXP would have its own local server(s) for mrtg, <br>smokeping, route collector, route servers, etc. In many ways, this is a <br>scaling requirement anyway.<br><br>Each site would have some form of resilient l3 IPT / l2 ring to both of <br>the sites hosting the web instance.<br><br>If a user wanted to see graphs from IXP-C, those graphs would be <br>requested from the servers at IXP-C.<br><br> - Barry<br>_______________________________________________<br>INEX IXP Manager mailing list<br>ixpmanager@inex.ie<br>https://www.inex.ie/mailman/listinfo/ixpmanager<br></div><br></div></body></html>