Last week of February 2015, Franck Simon, managing director at the internet exchange point called France-IX, delivered three presentations about the Best Common Practices for IXPs. This second presentation focuses on the infrastructure part of the IXP.

1. Best Common Practices
for IXPs management
infrastructure
Franck Simon – France IX Services
fsimon@franceix.net

2. BCP for IXPs –
Management infrastructure
• Monitoring
and
management
:
– Dedicated
infrastructure
(DMZ
or
VLAN
dedicated
to
management)
– OOB
management
• Console
access
• SSH
access
and
VPNs
– In-­‐band
management
=>
Secure/restrict
access
to
your
equipment
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3. BCP for IXPs – Monitoring
• Deploy
servers/monitoring
tools
• Elements
to
monitor:
– Detect
any
chance
of
MAC
address
on
the
IXP
(ARPwatch…)
– Chassis:
• CPU/processor
(including
linecards
CPU
when
appropriate)
• Memory
usage
• Fans
• Power
units
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4. • Elements
to
monitor:
– Ports
(both
members
and
backbone
ports):
• Ports
status
changes
• CRC,
input
errors…
• Unicast
packets,
non
Unicast
packets,
average
packets
size
…
• OpXcal
levels
and
opXcs
temperatures
• In/out
traffic
=>
Don’t
forget
to
also
monitor
your
monitoring
infrastructure,
not
only
the
IXP
infrastructure
!
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BCP for IXPs – Monitoring

5. Cf.
Euro-­‐IX
document
:
h^ps://www.euro-­‐ix.net/documents/1391-­‐euro-­‐ix-­‐
ixp-­‐bcops-­‐221014-­‐pdf?download=yes
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BCP for IXPs

6.
QuesXons
???
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BCP for IXPs