SwissIX Routeservers

SwissIX runs two OpenBSD/OpenBGPd based routeservers on the peering lan. All participants are welcome to peer with them. For redundancy reasons, it is strongly recommended that you peer with both of them.

OpenBGPd is configured with templates, so we have not to configure your session on it. Just fire up your BGP and the session should come up immediately. Please do not send md5 secrets, because we use templates it is not feasible to configure individual secrets.

On some routers, especialy Cisco, you have to configure no bgp enforce-first-as in your global BGP config to be able to peer with our transparent-as routeservers. Other vendors probably have a different config statement (Please tell us, if you have an example).

The routeservers have their own AS-number which is AS42476. For more details have a look at the peering details page.

There is also a looking glass interface installed in the route servers.

We also support some BGP communities, which are documented in the RIPE Whois Database for AS42476.

We have implemented a max-prefix on each peer. For IPv4 this is set at 12'000 prefixes, for IPv6 at 400 prefixes. If you expect to announce more than that, please contact us, so we can raise your limit.

We recommend to have a max-prefix setting at your side as well. At the moment we suggest to allow 20'000 IPv4 prefixes and 1000 IPv6 prefixes.