Fundamentally, wouldnt that require the said IXP to be able to send full internet feed (v4 + v6) beyond the peering LAN routes?
In some jurisdictions, the regulators require Transit Providers to have some sort of ISP license to sell such capacity. Noah On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, 19:46 Douglas Fischer, <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can an IXP sell traffic? > This is a rhetorical question. > I know that it can... In fact, it is obvious that it can. > > It is quite common to see several companies buying and selling traffic > through IXPs. > But whenever I have been involved with more serious companies, it was > common for this type of traffic to be over a Bilateral VLAN between the > Downstream and Upstream, and the ASs involved were from the operations > themselves (different from the ASN used by Route-Servers). > > But I have seen a reasonably large scenario in which the IXP operator, > maintaining the MLPA LAN with the pair of Route-Servers, adds another > participant with the SAME ASN as the route-servers, and through this > participant starts to sell traffic. > > This seemed very strange to me! > And that is why I came to ask if this is correct or not. > I would appreciate any guidance on the subject. > > In fact, there were other aggravating factors that worried me: > - The IXP activation information itself (VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, Route-Servers, > etc.) was indistinguishable from the information in the transit BGP > session. And the extra Billing information for anything sent by the transit > was not explicit. > - The routes reported exchanged by this transit had the ASN transparency > function in the AS-Path. > > Thanks in advance! > -- > Douglas Fernando Fischer > Engº de Controle e Automação >
