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1 - Every member or canditate must have a valid non private ASN (Autonomous System Number) and use BGP4 for peerings. Candidate must also have an internet related business, a legal company/organisation registration and an 24x7 operational contact.

2 - Peering relationships between members themselves aren't regulated by FreeIX. Every member is responsible for arranging peering agreements with other members.

3 - FreeIX doesn't offer hosting services on FreeIX POP so only cables (twisted pair and fiber) will be allowed from members. Hosting of member muxes, routers, switches, and all other equipement are the responsibilty of the member.

4 - Only peering traffic is allowed on FreeIX, in consequence selling IP Transit, sending full or partial Internet Transit routes or default route over FreeIX is forbidden, only "non charged" peering traffic is allowed.So fake "Nexthop rewrite" and other tricky static route isn't allowed at all. Members shall also ensure that their usage of FreeIX is not detrimental to other Members and must respect all the technical requirements defined in the this document.

5 - IPv4 address space assigned to FreeIX members shall not be advertised to other networks. Members shalln't use other IP Subnet over FreeIX Vlan and shalln't connect other devices than necessary BGP router.

6 - FreeIX Members connected Interfaces must only use IP addresses and netmasks (prefix lengths) assigned to them by FreeIX. Router/switch feature like ProxyARP, Spanning-tree, IGMP, VTP, GVRP , OSPF, ISIS, RIP, IGRP/EIGRP, CDP, IPX, VRRP, HSRP, DHCP aren't allowed and should be disabled.

7 - FreeIX members shall not announce prefixes longer than /24(ipv4).

8 - By default FreeIX assign one 100BaseTX port to members. 1000BaseSX/LX port are only available for members using at least 70 MBit/s (average) of their current Fast Ethernet connection. Members can only have one connection to FreeIX, including different FreeIX POPs. Every member is physicaly connected to FreeIX switch via a dedicated cable. Cable sharing isn't allowed for multiple members and only one MAC address is autorised per member port.

9 - FreeIX can suspend or discontinue the Connection, in whole or in part :

If the Member isn't respecting or agreeing to any of the above FreeIX rules.
In case of force majeur.
If the FreeIX receives an autoritative request or desire to comply with a statutory obligation.
If a maintenance is required.

10 - FreeIX cannot be responsible for direct or indirect consequential loss, loss of profits, business, revenue, goodwill, or anticipated savings resulting from a FreeIX service outage


v1.8 04/06/2004
If you have remarks or suggestions about this policy please send us an email to contact@freeix.net

If you are looking for peering policy of ProXad / Free SAS network, AS12322, take a look at: http://www.as12322.net/as12322_policy.html

   
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