{"id":111493,"date":"2022-09-01T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/service\/route-server\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:06:18","slug":"route-server","status":"publish","type":"service","link":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/service\/route-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Route Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Route servers<\/strong> are servers<\/em> (not routers<\/em>) which collect BGP announcements and send them to all their peers without any manipulation: next hops, AS-path, BGP attributes and communities are preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Why choosing Route Servers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Keep it easy<\/strong>
Managing lot of BGP sessions requires time and effort. With Route Servers a moltitude of peers are reachable with only two sessions.
You can still manage direct BGP sessions with your most important peers and use Route Servers for the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use it as backup<\/strong>
Even if you have single BGP session with some peers, sessions with route server can grant you backup.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mange your traffic policies<\/strong>
Our Route Servers support a large variety of communieties and funcionality that can be used to define your own route policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1. Our Route Servers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Type<\/strong><\/td>Route Server 1<\/strong><\/td>Route Server 2<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
AS<\/td>25309<\/td>25309<\/td><\/tr>
IPv4<\/td>194.116.96.254<\/td>194.116.96.253<\/td><\/tr>
IPv6<\/td>2001:7f8:23:ffff::ffff<\/td>2001:7f8:23:ffff::fffe<\/td><\/tr>
Platform<\/td>Bird<\/strong><\/a><\/td>Bird<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2. Supported features<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Routes Filtering<\/strong>
We apply different filters on our Route Servers for inbound and outbound announcements. See the section below for more information<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Large Communities<\/strong>
TOP-IX Route Servers support both standard communities and large communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manage your own policy<\/strong>
TOP-IX Route Servers support a large variety of communities that can be used to manage peers\u2019 inbound traffics. For outbound traffic peers should configure peering policies on their routers. For a detailed list of our supported communities, please refer to this link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gracefull shutdown<\/strong>
TOP-IX Route Servers will set local preference to 0 for all the routes tagged with the community (65535,0). The community will be preserved and sent to all the peers.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.1. Prefix filtering<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Incoming prefixes<\/strong>
TOP-IX Route Servers perform filtering on incoming prefixes. We drop default route, bogon, Martians, RFC 1918 ranges and announcement with lenght <\/8 or >\/24 for IPv4 and <16 or >70 for IPv6
We set a limit of 2000 routes imported for IPv4 and 200 routes for IPv6. If you need to advertise more routes, contact us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outgoing prefixes<\/strong>
From July 2019 TOP-IX Route Servers\u2019 implement an outgoing filter based on RPKI + IRRdb checks. All prefixes which are not compliant will be dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If you need to receive even not valid prefixes ( i.e research purpose ) please contact us and we will send all the routes tagged with the following schema:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROA VALID (25309,65021) (25309,1000,1)
ROA UNKNOWN (25309,65022) (25309,1000,2)
ROA INVALID (25309,65023) (25309,1000,3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ROA is UNKNOWN then a check on IRRDB is performed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IRR VALID (25309,65031) (25309,1001,1)
IRR INVALID (25309,65034) (25309,1001,4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MANRS<\/strong>
Yes, we are MANRS compliant. for more informations refer to www.manrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3. Peering policy for IXPs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Due to interconnetcions with other IXPs, at TOP-IX Route Servers you can peer with networks from FranceIX, LyonIX and VSIX.
Routes incoming from different IXPs are tagged with special communities, see the link<\/a> for more details
Due to commercial agreements, visibility of networks belonging to different IXPs is not always permitted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/td>TOP-IX<\/strong><\/td>VSIX<\/strong><\/td>LyonIX<\/strong><\/td>FranceIX<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
TOP-IX<\/strong><\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td><\/tr>
VSIX<\/strong><\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\u2013<\/td><\/tr>
LyonIX<\/strong><\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\"\"<\/td>\u2013<\/td><\/tr>
FranceIX<\/strong><\/td>\"\"<\/td>\u2013<\/td>\u2013<\/td>\"\"<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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4. Technical contacts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If you want to peer at our Route Servers, contact us at:
email : <\/strong>networking@top-ix.org<\/strong><\/a>
phone : <\/strong>+39 011 8390191<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOP-IX offers the opportunity to simplify the peering session through the use of Route Servers.<\/p>\n

Follow the instructions described below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111113,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service_category":[],"class_list":["post-111493","service","type-service","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/111493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/service"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_category?post=111493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}