Autonomous system
AS12322 PROXAD
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Free (Iliad, France)
isp eyeball broadband
Free (PROXAD) — the ISP of the Iliad group, a disruptive low-cost broadband and mobile operator in France.
What it's used for
- Consumer fixed broadband (the Freebox) and mobile internet across France.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network of French subscribers, known for aggressive pricing and the all-in-one Freebox router.
PROXAD(Free's network subsidiary) is the ASN handle.
Interesting
- Free's 2012 mobile launch triggered a price war that dramatically cut French mobile costs — echoing what Jio later did in India.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 8 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.223 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.191 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.251 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.63 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.160 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.130 |
| Nine IX | Paris, France | 185.1.14.42 |
| EuroGIX | Strasbourg, France | 185.1.14.42 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 3 downstream and 33 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 8.82M addresses IPv6 12 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 29 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12322- Registry name
- PROXAD
- Registrant
- Free SAS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@proxad.net
- Registered
- 2002-07-20
- Last changed
- 2023-08-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Free SAS
- Also known as
- ProXad / Iliad
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-PROXAD- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 18 facilities
- Website
- http://www.free.fr/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1,065 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 21 authorising AS12322
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1,065 of 1,065 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,069 naming AS12322
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere