Autonomous system
AS56984 IFM-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
ifm electronic GmbH
business industrial automation corporate
The AS handle IFM-AS is held by ifm electronic GmbH.
What it's used for
- The address space carries internal corporate infrastructure, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
ifm.com(e.g.,host-193-36-168-128.ifm.com) and netnamesDE-IFMELECTRONIC-20180426andBGP3-TT. - The inventory consists of 768 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes, with only 2 observed routing neighbours. This low neighbour count relative to the address block indicates a small, self-contained corporate network rather than a transit or access provider.
- Traffic from this AS represents office workers, engineering staff, and industrial automation endpoints for ifm electronic, a German manufacturer of sensors and automation components.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced prefixes are listed as
IFM IT-Team; ifm electronic GmbH, fully aligning with the AS holder. - The address inventory is finely subdivided into two small blocks (a /23 and a /24), consistent with site-by-site segmentation for an internal corporate estate.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS56984- Registry name
- IFM-AS
- Registrant
- de-ifmelectronic-1-mnt
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ifm.com
- Registered
- 2018-04-26
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS56984
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS56984
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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