Connection Information
We offer the following port for connectivity to our peering points:
Auckland
10Gbit/s
10000BaseLR
40Gbit/s
40GBaseLR4
100Gbit/s
100GBaseLR-4
Wellington
10Gbit/s
10000BaseLR
40Gbit/s
40GBaseLR4
100Gbit/s
100GBaseLR-4
Christchurch
1Gbit/s
10000BaseLX
10Gbit/s
10000GBaseLR
Please contact us for pricing of LAG options.
General Notes
Be Aware
Port Security
The greatest danger to any Ethernet network consists of loops. If measures are not taken to prevent loops they can instantly bring down any network.
Route servers
Allowed Ethertypes
Ethernet types:
- 0x800 – IPv4
- 0x806 – ARP
- 0x86DD – IPv6
Mac Limit
We request only 1 MAC per port on any of our Peering Points.
This means frames forwarded to an individual port shall have the same MAC Address.
Limitations
No Proxy ARP
Use of Proxy ARP on the routers interface to the IX is strictly prohibited.
No IP Directed Broadcasts
IP Directed Broadcasts are strictly prohibited.
Unicast Only
Frames forwarded shall only be Unicast, forwarding traffic to a Multicast or Broadcast MAC destination address is prohibited, except for the following:
- Broadcast ARP Packets
- Multicast ICMPv6 Neighbour Discovery packets (this does not include Route Solicitation or Advertisement packets).
No Link Local Traffic
Link local traffic shall not be forward to the Peering VLAN(s), Link-Local protocols include but are not limited to:
- ICMP redirects
- IEEE 802 Spanning Tree
- BOOTP/DHCP
- ICMPv6 Router Advertisements
- UDLD
- BFD
- PIM
- Interior routing protocol broadcasts (e.g. OSPF, ISIS, IGRP, EIGRP)
- L2 Keepalives
- Vendor propriety protocols:
- Discovery protocols: CDP, EDP, FDP
- VLAN/trunking protocols: VTP, DTP
The following link-local protocols are exceptions and are allowed:
- ARP
- ICMPv6 Network Discover
Policy Control
Policy control is achieved by the use of BGP Communities. Peers must tag their routes using the following, in order to control policy via the route server. The default behaviour is to advertise all prefixes to peers (63830:63830). Please ensure use of the following model:
0:PEER_AS
Do not advertise to specified peer
63830:PEER_AS
Advertise to specified peer
0:63830
Do not advertise to any peer
63830:63830
Advertise to all peers (Default)
1:PEER_AS
Prepend once to specified peer
2:PEER_AS
Prepend twice to specified peer
3:PEER_AS
Do not advertise to specified peer
For Extended Communities, prepend “rt:” to the community of choice, for example:
rt:0:PEER_AS
Do not advertise to specified peer
For Large Communities, prepend “63830:” to the community of choice, for example:
63830:0:PEER_AS
Do not advertise to specified peer
Policy control is achieved by the use of BGP Communities. Peers must tag their routes using the following, in order to control policy via the route server. The default behaviour is to advertise all prefixes to peers (63830:63830). Please ensure use of the following model:
0:PEER_AS | Do not advertise to specified peer |
63830:PEER_AS | Advertise to specified peer |
0:63830 | Do not advertise to any peer |
63830:63830 | Advertise to all peers (Default) |
1:PEER_AS | Prepend once to specified peer |
2:PEER_AS | Prepend twice to specified peer |
3:PEER_AS | Prepend thrice to specified peer |
For Extended Communities, prepend “rt:” to the community of choice, for example:
rt:0:PEER_AS | Do not advertise to specified peer |
For Large Communities, prepend “63830:” to the community of choice, for example:
63830:0:PEER_AS | Do not advertise to specified peer |
3rd Party Communities
3rd Party Communities are provided by Members across NZIX for serving content. If you wish to opt-in to any available services, please tag your prefixes with the below BGP community string:
CHC-IX
Community String
63830:40027
Content
Netflix
Supplied By
Vocus Group New Zealand (AS9790)
Purpose
Opt-in content cache for Netflix
| Community String | Content | Supplied by | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63830:40027 | Netflix | Vocus Group New Zealand (AS9790) | Opt-in content cache for Netflix |
