Peering Policy

LINK-IX

Open Policy

  • 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.