The BDIX/SCL NIX is a layer two Internet Exchange over Ethernet. All members connecting to NIX/BDIX are exchanging data via an Ethernet which is a layer two technology.

Each member is connected to BDIX/NIX with their own individual router. All routers on the Ethernet are allowed to peer by exchanging routing tables through the route server set up by BDIX/NIX using BGP.

A route server redistributes BGP routes received from its BGP clients to other clients according to policy. By peering with a route server, customers can avoid separate BGP sessions with all their peers and instead limit the number of sessions to one with each route server.

Example: * C:\Users\md.aminul>tracert 210.4.77.180

• Tracing route to dns1.bdcom.com [210.4.77.180]
• over a maximum of 30 hops:
• 1 14 ms 22 ms 26 ms 10.190.4.1
• 2 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 103.73.224.145
• 3 31 ms 16 ms 25 ms 103.73.226.5
• 4 20 ms 3 ms 3 ms 103.161.216.28 ( BDIX IP )
• 5 6 ms 3 ms 3 ms 10.10.10.10
• 6 5 ms * 1265 ms dns1.bdcom.com [210.4.77.180]
• Trace complete.