After working at it for 11+ months, I finally turned up a IX.BR port! One part of the process I was quite impressed at was the IX.BR Automated quarantine system. So impressed that I decided to write a small post about it in the hopes that other exchanges can observe and do similar things: Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixbr-automated-quarantine
![A photo of a road sign under a bridge that says "Prohibited Traffic [this way]", Text under the bridge says Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing](/d/28bQJ2MCZL5623jnZ1.jpg "A photo of a road sign under a bridge that says \"Prohibited Traffic [this way]\", Text under the bridge says Appreciation of automated IX Quarantine LAN testing")
one honk maybe more
yottatsa@deadinsi.de
replied 01 Feb 2024 13:22 +0000
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@benjojo “almost all exchanges are layer 2 broadcast domains with all member routers on the same subnet” may I ask why is it done this way? Is it for performance reasons, like, avoiding routing so it will be easier to scale and less moving parts?
millie@gts.millistic..
replied 01 Feb 2024 15:30 +0000
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jamesog@mastodon.soc..
replied 01 Feb 2024 18:00 +0000
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benjojo
replied 01 Feb 2024 20:43 +0000
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@jamesog Yeah, I spotted that too, but I'll give them a pass on that, non native english speakers. A lot of the IX.BR process is in Portuguese, and so finding bits that were english was a plesent surprise whenever possible :)
jamesog@mastodon.soc..
replied 01 Feb 2024 20:43 +0000
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