[ixpmanager] New install step by step

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hey Vladisalv,

Vladislav Bidikov wrote on 23/07/2018 17:36:

>  >> 2.
>  >>
>  >> Can i add another customer (with private AS number) for Route 
> Colector -
>  >> and than go from there ?
> 
>  >You should set the Route Collector up as being owned by the IXP itself.
>  >It would be a good idea for the IXP to have its own ASN.
> 
> See this screen shot:
> http://prntscr.com/k9ztzm
> 
> Since i only got one AS number (for the peering/RS) maybe we made a 
> mistake ...
> Can i use the same As also for Route collector - wince the services of 
> the IXP are not in this ip/AS space ?

I think I previously advised to have two ASNs: one for the route 
collector / IXP and one for the route servers.

The reason you need two is because the routing policy of the IXP will be 
completely different to the routing policy of the route servers.


>  >> 3.
>  >>
>  >> Since all these VMs (2 x RS, 1 x Rc, 1 x AS112) will be connected on 
> the
>  >> same Port (the Eth-Trunk) how will IXP manager handle this since there
>  >> will be 3 customers ?

<snipping out the longer description and replies>

The question is how will IXP Manager handle this -> it won't.

We work around this by picking unused switch ports at the moment and 
we're not completely decided on how to handle this in the long run.

 From a customer perspective, it doesn't matter as the only real loss is 
traffic graphs and, as it's all internal anyway, they are not missed.

>  >> 4.
>  >>
>  >> Since i expect one real customer (ourselves as FCSE - with AS 52188)
>  >> also will come connected on the same trunk (to save few ETH ports) how
>  >> to handle this?
> 
>  >um, you don't really want to do this.  Each real customer should have
>  >their own physical port with appropriate port security mechanisms.  FCSE
>  >might run the IXP but it's not the IXP, and each should have their own 
> port.
> 
> Ok, new 1G (copper/optic) combo port for this ...

Perfect!


>  >> 5.
>  >>
>  >> Also, i enabled MRTG grapher which i see all files are 
> generated/updated
>  >> in /srv/mrtg but the web page shows imaged not found:
>  >>
>  >> http://prntscr.com/k9zd66
>  >>
>  >> and, view source does not help since i cannot debug where does the img
>  >> is loaded from...
> 
>  >These files should come straight from /srv/mrtg.  Have you configured
>  >the following variables in .env:
>  >
>  >GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/srv/mrtg"
>  >GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="/srv/mrtg"
> 
> These where there, after i got your reply and hit refresh graphs started 
> showing without intervention ....
> So this is resolved...

Great!


  - Barry