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<body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br /></div><div>Hi Thomas,</div><div><br /></div><div>A number of things key off a physical interface being in a ‘Connected’ state. </div><div><br /></div><div>A way around this is to create a ‘dummy’ switch with lots of ports and just assign the next port to members.</div><div><br /></div><div> - Barry</div><div><br /></div>
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<div>From "Thomas Fritz via ixpmanager" <<a href="mailto:ixpmanager@inex.ie">ixpmanager@inex.ie</a>></div>
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<div>Cc "Thomas Fritz" <<a href="mailto:thomas.fritz@rheintal-ix.net">thomas.fritz@rheintal-ix.net</a>></div>
<div>Date 09/09/2025 12:02:22</div>
<div>Subject [ixpmanager] Provision peers without assigning physical interface</div></div><div x-em-quote=""><br /></div>
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<div class="plain_line">Is there a designated way to provision peers without assigning a physical interface?</div>
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<div class="plain_line">In that particualare case, some other tools are in use to orchestrate, document and gather statistics of the physical ports,</div>
<div class="plain_line">but we would like to use all the rest of the features provided by IXPManager.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Thanks,</div>
<div class="plain_line">Thomas</div>
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