Overview of MegaIX Features

This topic provides an overview of key MegaIX features, including advanced tools for visibility, robust routing enhancements, and support for industry standards.

MegaIX Looking Glass

The MegaIX Looking Glass provides full-featured visibility into traffic routing and the IX route server environment. This visibility helps you troubleshoot connections by searching for an AS number, a peer, or a particular IP prefix on the IX route server. For more information, see MegaIX Looking Glass.

Route server filtering

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a public key infrastructure framework that is designed to support improved security for the internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing infrastructure. RPKI provides a way to connect internet number resource information (such as Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses) to a trust anchor.
invalid routes are filtered and are easy to identify using the Looking Glass. For more information on RPKI, see any of these helpful references:

Peer AS-SET

The Peer AS-SET option is enabled for all connections. This value defines the AS macro filter for the peer. Megaport uses it to generate a list of prefixes and origin AS values that an AS can originate, and this list filters announcements through the route server.

Large BGP community support

The upgraded route servers support an extended range of action communities that Megaport IX route servers are able to recognize. As part of this, the EURO-IX Large BGP Community standard is also supported. Megaport recommends migrating to these communities.

Note

MegaIX communities will be supported for 12 months before they are deprecated by Megaport.

BFD support

The route server upgrade passively enables the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol on route servers in all Megaport IX locations with a 300 millisecond interval. The BFD protocol detects any path failures between BGP neighbors.

BGP Add Path

IX supports the BGP add-path feature to enable advertisements of multiple paths to a single address prefix, without the new paths implicitly replacing any previous paths.

Add-path support provides:

Optimal routing and routing convergence in a network by providing potential alternate or backup paths.
BGP traffic load balancing across more than one path.

For more information, see Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP.

Note

Your network must support BGP add-path functionality to benefit from its features.