Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions

Yaoqing(Joey) Liu joey.liuyq at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 03:04:24 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost <
mksmith at adhost.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yaoqing(Joey) Liu [mailto:joey.liuyq at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:03 PM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Internet Exchange Point(IXP) questions
> >
> > I'm doing some research on multiple origin AS problems of IXPs. As I
> know,
> > generally there are two types of IXPs
> > type 1: use exchange routers, which works in layer 3
> > type 2: use switches and Ethernet topology, which works in layer 2.
> > So I have a couple of qustions:
> > 1. For type 1, the exchange routers may use several IP prefixes for
> routing,
> > how often does the IP prefixes have their own AS?
> > 2. For type 2, all peers connected to the IXP must work in the same
> subnet
> > required by Ethernet rules. Is possible that the subnet IP prefixes
> belong
> > to some private IP address space, such as 192.168.x.x? How often does
> this
> > happen? If the subnet only contains public IP addresses, how are the
> > addresses announced?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yaoqing
>
> Hello:
>
> On the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) we have ARIN-assigned addresses that
> we use on the Layer 2 fabric (your type 2 above).  Hopefully the addresses
> aren't being announced at all, although we sometimes have to chase down
> people that announce it.  Those addresses aren't the destination for any
> traffic, they are merely part of the transport to a destination, so there is
> no need for them to be in the DFZ.
>

But I just checked the IXP prefix list, and found SIX owns prefix
206.81.80.0/23. And it has been announced by three ASNs, AS11537(Internet
2), AS3130(RGnet, LLC) and AS25973(Mzima Networks, Inc). I'm not sure if my
info is correct. Does SIX own its own ASN other than the three above?

Yaoqing


> Regards,
>
> Mike
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