This year also marks the most significant upgrades to the SLIX infrastructure in its history.

• ARIN has delegated SLIX an IPv4 /24 and an IPv6 /48:

IPv4: 149.112.13.0/24 

IPv6: 2001:504:105::0/48

If you have an existing SLIX IP address at 204.228.158.x, add 10 to it to find your new IP address.  To find your new IPv6 address, take this number and make a decimal version of the IPv4 address.  For example:

204.228.158.4 + 10 = new IPv4 149.112.13.14/24 & IPv6 = 2001:504:105::14/64

Note the /64 size of the IPv6 subnet.

These new subnets are live now on the SLIX infrastructure.  There is no need for administrative configuration, simply add the new IP addresses to your SLIX router interface.  I would like to remove the old SLIX subnets by June 1, 2021, so please migrate soon.

• SLIX has installed IXP Manager with redundant route-servers, route-collector, and an as112 service.

Use your PeeringDB.com login or contact us for an account to login to:

https://ixp.slix.net

If your account is not associated with your PeeringDB AS#, then it will need to be administratively associated with your customer/peering entry after this is done.  Once associated, you can inspect what your SLIX BGP view is of your announcements with the route-collector (rc1) looking glass.  When you are satisfied that this is ready, I can add you to the route-servers to peer with everyone else.  You can also continue to peer directly with other SLIX peers, but they will need to change their IP address to the new subnet.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with a route-server, it essentially offloads all the work of peering at an exchange and intelligently filters for you.  The SLIX route-collector provides a view of your announcements without sending them to anyone else.  Both the route-servers and route-collectors are IRR filtered with RPKI validation.  They update repeatedly throughout the day.

In order to utilize the AS112 service, you either need to peer with the route-servers, or request direct peering with the AS112 IP addresses.

• More dark fiber is pending, and equipment has arrived to increase port capacity to 100Gb. A SLIX 100Gb port is $3000/MRC, with either payment to SLIX for a QSFP of your choice, or send us one. If you are interested in upgrading to a 100Gb port, or multiples, please let us know.
  

• Mailman has been been upgraded to Mailman3.
  

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Please let us know if you have any questions, issues or problems.  Here's to open packet exchange in the decades to come!