BGP Peering & Transit
Rhodes University announces its network to the Internet under the autonomous system number 37520 (Rhodes-Univ).
Statistics on the visibility of this autonomous system from various parts of the Internet are available from: RIPEstat, RIPE RIS, Hurricane Electric, Potaroo and TCPIPUTILS.com.
Transit
Rhodes purchases transit from the Tertiary Education & Research Network of South Africa (TENET, AS2018).
Rhodes does not (re-)sell transit. It does, however, provide transit for a number of small, not-for-profit organisations based in Grahamstown (such as public schools, museums, etc). This is entirely at the University's discretion and subject to TENET's Connection Policy.
Peering
Rhodes University founded and was a peer at the Grahamstown Internet Exchange until its closure in November 2012.
Rhodes currently doesn't have a formal peering policy, nor does it have a presence at any public Internet exchange point (although this is planned in future)
The University will consider any reasonable request for private peering on an ad-hoc basis, subject to the following basic principles:
- A mutually acceptable arrangement can be reached regarding the costs of any infrastructure involved.
- Rhodes will not advertise less than a /24 (IPv4) or a /48 (IPv6) and, as a general rule, will filter incoming routes in the same way. We may be prepared to consider exceptions to this, particularly for local (Grahamstown) networks.
- Rhodes will not peer with anyone who is unable/unwilling to advertise routes to their own network.
Routes & Networks
Rhodes originates both IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes from AS37520.
Up-to-date route objects for all the networks Rhodes originates are available in the RIPE Internet Routing Registry, and these can be used to construct appropriate ingress filters.
