IXP

This post covers how routing is being manipulated across Indian IXPs resulting in free IP transit

This posts covers a quick analysis of Airtel’s recent interconnection at MSK-IX in Moscow, Russia

This post covers analysis of Google’s IP routing backbone

This post covers information about Google’s plan to stop peering via route servers as well as possible speculation around why they are doing that.

I was having this discussion with someone recently on possible software to manage an IXP. Lately, IXP Manager has become the de-facto choice for managing IX. It’s a good tool. Nick and INEX team has built a fantastic open-source tool. But I still feel it’s a bit overloaded for a small 1-2 DC IX operation.

If I have to set up a small to mid-size IX, I would rather do that with arouteserver instead of IXP Manager as I did in case of BharatIX in Mumbai (until it shutdown!). One of the problems with arouteserver is that it can be script intensive and one may need something around it to manage it for things like build config on clients.yml update, regularly update filters etc.