How to become an INX participant

Connecting to an INX

Before connecting to one of ISPA’s INXes, you should familiarise yourself with ISPA’s INX policies and costs available here
Note that ISPs outside of South Africa but within Southern Africa may join ISPA as non-voting international members. They have the same access to the INXes and pay the same fees as other members of their size.

Overview of the application process

Setup requirements are essentially as follows:

1. Apply for a Telkom line (or let know if you’re connecting via some other means).
2. Request that an IP address be allocated to you, using the instructions here.
3. Arrange to be added to the list of people permitted to access the INX. Refer to the Access Procedures bit of this page.
4. Let IS know when you’ll be arriving at the INX, using the step-by-step guide on the same page (here)
5. Take your router to the INX. There is some information on the type of router you’ll need on the INX FAQ page here.
6. Find out what the other ISPA members’ policies are for arranging interconnection. It can often be useful to do this step in parallel to the above steps, because some peering partners may require contracts to be signed or peering/transit charges to be negotiated.
7. Let the ISPA webmaster () know what your interconnection policy is, as well as the other information listed on the site for each JINX participant. (see below)
8. Notify once you are live. If you need to upgrade your membership category (depending on what sort of connection you want to install), we’ll do that automatically from the month after your connection goes live.

Sample Configuration Information Required from JINX participants

This is the default configuration example of the information stored about JINX peers on the ISPA website. If you peer at JINX, it is your responsibility to ensure that ISPA is notified of the relevant changes to information (especially contact details) as soon as they happen.
If you are joining JINX, and you are following the howto guide on the JINX section of the ISPA website, please email the following data to the webmaster () for inclusion.

ISP Name

Membership category: [ Large | Medium | Small ]
Connected to JINX: [ Yes | No ]
Autonomous system number: ….
IP address at JINX: 198.32.142.??? [note: see this page for available addresses]
Prefixes accepted: {list of accepted prefixes}
Contact person: Name email@ispname.co.za (and if necessary) a phone number

Statement of interconnection policy:

ISP Name currently peers according to the following published peering policies:

• ISP Name private peering agreement [http://www.ispname.co.za/peering.html]
• ISP Name currently peers with all peers on a no charge basis.
• ISP Name currently accepts and peers on the basis of the default ISPA peeting policy

Additional information can be added here [...]

It is important you familiarise yourself with the information on the JINX section of the ISPA website. Where possible this information is the most current for reference purposes.