[FCIX] IX Redundancy

[Robert Navarro]

Interesting, good to know!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 9:14 AM Lee Hetherington <lists at kerfuffle.net>
wrote:

> Hey Robert,
>
> Two different IXPs (that have similar in-market peers) or two connections
> to the same IXP.   In my $dayjob we often have 4 routers on a large IX for
> this reason
>
> Certainly no fancy VRRPs or anything else on an IX please, or switches to
> add two routers :)
>
> Cheers
>
> —Lee
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 17:03 Robert Navarro via Members <members at fcix.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> Newbie question here, given that IX's generally only allow a single MAC
>> on the port what do people do for HA in this situation?
>>
>> If the IX link goes down, is paid transit the "high availability" ?
>>
>> I don't imagine something like VRRP is used as that would be multiple
>> MACs right?
>>
>> I see there is another FCIX member that appears to have multiple
>> connections to FCIX:
>> https://fcix.net/participants/#:~:text=Linux%20Global,504%3A91%3A%3A41
>>
>> Is that how it's done? You request two ports to the IX and link them to
>> separate routers?
>>
>>
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