You must be in a data center where LINK-IX is present to connect. Remote membership is not accepted.
You can become a member through cross-connect or our partners.
You can get up to 1 Gbps free port in data centers where LINK-IX is present.
For 10/40/100 Gbps connections, the participant must provide the SPF module.
The cabling costs from your cabinet to LINK-IX may be billed to you by your data center.
LINK-IX has an open peering policy.
You must have 1 prefix, your own ASN, and an open peering policy that you can announce to match with LINK-IX route servers.
LINK-IX implements and supports MANRS policies.
No announcements greater than /24 can be made to IX route servers.
You cannot announce private IP blocks or bogon IPs to IX route servers.
There is no LLC Encapsulation.
MAC address filtering applies to each port.
You can only use 1 MAC address for each physical connection (including LACP).
Proxy-ARP should be disabled on your side.
If multicast, DHCP, RA, and similar traffics are detected, the port may be disabled.
LINK-IX IPs are not allowed to be announced to your network neighbors outside of your own AS.
The necessary route / route6 objects must be present on the IRR for the IPs you want to announce. Filters will be updated automatically by looking at these records.
Route objects coming from other IRRs other than RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, ARIN, NTTCOM, and RADB databases are not accepted.
Protocols other than BGP, such as EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, IS-IS, are not used.
IGMP, DHCP, TFTP traffic is not allowed.
Spanning Tree (STP) usage and broadcasting to the network as L2 Bridge are not allowed.
IPv6 Router Advertisement is not allowed.
Only IPv4, IPv6, and ARP Ethertypes are allowed.
Spoof or DDOS attacks are strictly prohibited within the network; networks detected to do so may be closed without warning.
Ports of networks that do not comply with the rules despite warnings will be closed.