Terms & Conditions

  1. Any illegal activities are strictly forbidden
  2. Every member must keep their contact information up to date (ie. inform INXS staff about changes)
  3. The primary method for communication with the INXS operators and members is e-mail.
  4. Every member should answer e-mail to the supplied contact information from INXS members or potential new INXS members within 5 working days.
  5. Members must not redirect their customers to the INXS operator without permission.
  6. Only routers hosted in Cable & Wireless housing facilities may be connected to the INXS switches. Connecting LAN-Links directly to the INXS switch is not allowed to prevent outages due to misconfiguration and/or faulty hardware.
  7. INXS members must only use IP addresses on the interface(s) of their router(s) connected to the INXS peering LAN allocated to them.
  8. INXS members must only use one single MAC address for each INXS switch port that is allocated to them.
  9. Peering between the members is done via BGP version 4
  10. INXS Members should not create any unnecessary route flaps
  11. No member is allowed to announce routes with a next-hop other than his own router(s).
  12. Every member must disable the following on their interface(s) connected to the peering LAN: Proxy ARP, ICMP redirects, CDP, IRDP, directed broadcasts, IEEE 802 spanning tree, any interior routing protocol and MAC layer broadcasts except ARP.
  13. Members must disable any duplex, speed or other link parameter auto-sensing on all interfaces connected to the peering LAN.
  14. Communication on the INXS mailing lists is confidential and may not be forwarded to third parties.
  15. Every member has to make sure that their usage of the INXS does not handicap other members.
  16. Members should not routinely use the INXS for carrying traffic between their own routers.
  17. Usage of the INXS must at all times conform to the relevant standards as laid out in STD0001 and associated Internet STD documents