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Amateur Radio Internet Exchange

ARIX is an experimental internet exchange point for licensed amateur radio operators. ARIX is purely experimental for the use of networking research, development, and education. ARIX is NOT a production-grade internet exchange and should not be relied on as the primary point of connection. That being said, it's great fun to experiment so everyone is encouraged to join if they meet the conditions below.

Connectivity

Connections be obtained via 802.11 wireless or other particpating IP protocols. You're welcome to integrate something other than Ethernet, but the route servers are TCP/IP only and most peers are as well. Currently the supported interconnection methods are as follows:

• 2.4GHz 802.11n - Portland, OR
• 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11n - Flagstaff, AZ
• 1GigE/10GigE - Fremont, CA
• VXLAN/EoIP - Vancouver, BC
• VXLAN/EoIP - Frankfurt, DE

Feel free to send us an email or keybase message at any time. Happy peering!

Members

Currently there are 12 sessions on the exchange.

Contact

The ARIX team can be contacted by:
Email: noc@arix.dev

Keybase: team/arixexchange

Policy

If an ARIX member cause issues for the exchange, other members, or the internet at large, intentionally or unintentionally, the offending port may be brought down until the issue is corrected.

Network Controllers

The network controllers enforce the following policies:

• Only IPv4, IPv6, and ARP ethertypes are permitted.
• Only traffic originating from your origional interface MAC is permitted.
• Only controller-assigned addresses are permitted.

The controllers will drop the offending packet(s) if the above policies are violated.

Route Servers

ARIX operates dual stack route servers to aid members in their peering endevours. See the members table above for peering information.

IRR

IRRDB filtering is not currently enforced. In the near future automated IRRDB filters will be put in place using data from RADB-mirrored IRRs. This includes ALTDB and all RIR databases, among others.

RPKI

Due to AMPRNet policy we are unable to filter by RPKI on IPv4, so ROA signing for both IPv4 and IPv6 is ignored.

BGP Communities

RFC 8326 GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN is supported. Routes tagged with community (65535:0) will have LOCAL_PREF set to 0. Additionally, routes tagged with communty (0:47192) will not be announced to any peer.

Prefix Length

Networks must be a minimum size of IPv4 /24 and IPv6 /48. Any more specific prefixes will be rejected.

Prefix Limits

The route servers have a max prefix import policy of 100 routes or less for both IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv4

Only routes within AMPRNet ranges (44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10) are accepted by the route servers. All other IPv4 networks are rejected. Additionally, any prefix overlapping the peering LAN (44.190.42.0/24) will be rejected.

IPv6

Because there is no "offical" IPv6 network for amateur radio operators, most IPv6 networks in the range of 2000::/3 are accepted. The route servers block some IPv6 networks. Click here to see the full filtered prefix list. (All more specific prefixes are rejected) Additionally, any prefix overlapping the peering LAN (2a0e:8f00:fddd::/64) will be rejected.