PEERING
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Peering
FireNet have an open peering policy for other networks who wish to peer domestically with our network. We welcome any potential networks that would bring value to both networks with a minimum peering speed of 100Mbps.
Peering locations are available on our PeeringDB record at https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/38883.
Peering Requirements
- Both parties shall have consistent route announcements across all public and private interconnection points.
- Both parties shall make every reasonable effort to limit and control Denial of Service attacks and forged packets from within their network.
- Both parties shall announce only their own routes and those of their transit customers to one another. Route leaking is prohibited, and will be filtered if detected.
- Both parties shall refrain from using one another as a route of last resort, or otherwise sending traffic to the other party for a route not announced via BGP.
- FireNet can provide MD5 password for each BGP session (optional).
- Both parties shall maintain Network Operations Center that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Both parties shall provide advance notice of any planned maintenance, and immediate notice of any unplanned outages, affecting any interconnection.