T-CIX.NET

T-CIX was founded in 2015 as an Internet eXchange platform which allows its members to optimize and improve the quality of its Internet resource through the granted opportunity to interconnect directly as well as to connect to regionally and Worldwide presented Internet eXchange points through a single port.


Traffic management


The following BGP communities are supported for traffic management within the exchange:

0:MEMBER-AS do not announce to this member
41059:MEMBER-AS Announce to this member
0:41059 do not announce to all members
41059:41059 announce to all members

 

The following BGP communities are supported for traffic management towards the upstream providers:

65000:201 do not announce to TIX
65000:202 do not announce to DE-CIX
65000:204 do not announce to DATAIX
65000:205 do not announce to RONIX
65000:206 do not announce to Interlan
65000:207 do not announce to AMS-IX
65000:208 do not announce to SOX
65000:209 do not announce to TTI

 

In order to use RTBH, it's necessary to send prefixes with bgp community 65000:0 and next-ho 185.1.40.100 or 2001:7F8:98::100. Example configuration:

route-map UP-OUT-T-CIX permit 2
 match community blackhole
 set ip next-hop 185.1.40.100
 set ipv6 next-hop 2001:7F8:98::100
 set community 65000:0 additive
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