Colleagues,
I have some good news from the tech team. We’ve recently received a donation of two new servers from the Internet Society to help provide additional services at the MIXP. We are now ready to incorporate these into our setup, so that we can start serving you better.
To start, we will be using these to provide resiliency for the BGP route server (BGP-RS) service that the MIXP provides. So, this weekend, we’re going to move RS1 to one of the servers on the new cluster. We’re going to use the time to do some system maintenance as well (new kernel updates), so you will see a brief outage to your BGP-RS and BGP-RC (route collector) sessions, whilst we reboot and upgrade these.
Of course we’ll do this carefully, and only one at a time, so no actual traffic flow should be interrupted, even though you will see the BGP sessions reset.
We have some other great tools that we will adding to our setup. More on this to follow.
For now, please take note that during the time period 01h00 UTC on Saturday 7 Nov you can expect to see the BGP sessions mentioned above reset.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, please feel free to teach out to the techical team via noc@mixp.org.
Regards,