After reading the title of this article you may be thinking of small neighborhoods in the world’s most-connected cities where BGP-minded people live together, or maybe online places where BGP connoisseurs hang out, such as the North American Network Operators...
This article discusses BGP session culling techniques that mitigate a negative impact of maintenance of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) on IP networks. IXP represents a central point used to exchange traffic between ISPs (IXP members). It is one or several...
When networks exchange traffic without having a customer-provider relationship, this is called peering. We’ve talked about peering in previous Noction blog posts, such as Peering Request Etiquette, What should your peering policy look like? and Where do networks...
One given in the network world is that bandwidth will increase. So that Gigabit Ethernet link that provided bandwidth to spare a year ago may be insufficient today. The simple solution is to upgrade to a faster link. In the Ethernet world this would mean a jump from 1...
It’s been a while since we talked about filtering BGP updates. BGP routers need to be configured with the right filters so packets don’t flow in directions they’re not supposed to flow. However, applying a filter to a BGP session that’s already...
