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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Barry O'Donovan (INEX) via ixpmanager<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 September 2025 15:09<br>
<b>To:</b> INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List <ixpmanager@inex.ie>; INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List <ixpmanager@inex.ie><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Barry O'Donovan (INEX) <barry.odonovan@inex.ie><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ixpmanager] Provision peers without assigning physical interface<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">A number of things key off a physical interface being in a ‘Connected’ state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">A way around this is to create a ‘dummy’ switch with lots of ports and just assign the next port to members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">From "Thomas Fritz via ixpmanager" <<a href="mailto:ixpmanager@inex.ie">ixpmanager@inex.ie</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">Date 09/09/2025 12:02:22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">Subject [ixpmanager] Provision peers without assigning physical interface<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">Is there a designated way to provision peers without assigning a physical interface?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">In that particualare case, some other tools are in use to orchestrate, document and gather statistics of the physical ports,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",serif;color:black">but we would like to use all the rest of the features provided by IXPManager.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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