[FCIX] IX Redundancy

[Robert Navarro]

That's a great point!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:16 AM Delong.com <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> Usually, yes…
>
> After all, having two routers on the same IX port isn’t really redundancy,
> it’s redundant connections to a single point of failure (i.e. the IX port).
>
> Owen
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2023, at 12:27, 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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