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This is the most basic service that
Internet Exchange Points
provide. Internet Service Providers connect to TREX and sign up
for Unicast Peering so that they can exchange their customers'
traffic between each other.
Members can include this button or logo on their websites:
The VLAN can be requested in native form without any encapsulation
in a port, or encapsulated with IEEE802.1q.
The
Member Requirements for
Unicast Peering service are on a separate page, because they are
common to some other services.
One of the requirements is to
peer with the exchange point itself.
Address Generation
IPv4 addresses are assigned by TREX, but
the IPv6 addresses on this VLAN are formed as follows:
2001:07F8:001D:0004:0000:0000:ASN#:RTRN
- where ASN#
- This is the AS number of the
router having this address, in hexadecimal.
Examples: AS12345 becomes 3039
and AS1234 becomes 04D2.
- RTRN
- This is the router number, usually 0001, but
if the member has more than one router this can be higher.
Let's apply this algorithm for the exchange point's own routers.
The exchange point's autonomous system number is AS29432 which
is 72F8 in hexadecimal.
Router number one gets the following address:
2001:07F8:001D:0004:0000:0000:72F8:0001
or in a shorter format:
2001:7f8:1d:4::72f8:1
32-bit Autonomous Systems
Generating IPv6 addresses for 32-bit Autonomous System Numbers
is very similar. The structure is:
2001:07F8:001D:0004:0000:ASHI:ASLO:RTRN
- where ASHI
- This is the upper part or high 16 bits of the
AS number.
- ASLO
- This is the lower part or low 16 bits of the
AS number.
MAC Addresses
At this stage we are not restricting the use of MAC addresses on
the shared medium, but we wish that members use the MAC addresses
generated by the algorithm that follows.
We are using the local OUI 0E-xx-xx on the shared medium:
0E:RN:AS:HI:AS:LO
So again, the first exchange point router would become:
0E:01:00:00:72:F8
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