[tech-l] New features of SpeedIX route servers

Dear SpeedIX members, As you know from our last announcements, last Friday we successfully finished upgrading of SpeedIX route servers. By this upgrade, we have migrated to new operating systems and to Bird2. The main reason why we migrated to Bird2 is an implementation of RPKI filtering and it will be done in near future. By RPKI filtering we are going to filter all prefixes from members that have status on RPKI validators INVALID. Of course, we will notify you before enabling RPKI filtering on SpeedIX route servers but you already can start checking if your prefixes have valid ROAs to prevent from blocking them ;) Also this upgrading has already added extra features available for members: Ability to see filtered (dropped) prefixes by SpeedIX route servers and the most interesting part is to see the reason why the prefix is not accepted. You can find the new tab "Filtered Prefixes" in your account of SpeedIX manager (https://my.speed-ix.net/). By clicking this tab you will be redirected to a page with the list of your filtered prefixes on SpeedIX route servers. If you see notice "Good news! ... " that means all your announced prefixes to SpeedIX route servers are our requirements met and accepted to be advertised to other members. When you see notice with "Bad news! ... " then you need to check your announcement and fix them (the reasons to filter prefixes on route servers are described on page https://speed-ix.net/deployment/#prefix_filtering) Also, Speed-IX members are able to prepend one or more AS numbers to the left side of the AS path and advertise it only to a certain member(s) by using large BGP communities. For details see page https://speed-ix.net/bgp-community-filtering/ Have a nice peering! SpeedIX Internet Exchange Team