The Internet is for everyone, yet not everyone accepts that. In light of the news about Cogent Communications and Lumen Technologies disconnecting clients in Russia, we will discuss restrictions that the Russian Federation has imposed on social media and the potential...
What is Anycast? Anycast is not a new version of IP or the latest networking technology. The RFC 1546 describing Internet anycasting for IP has been with us since 1993. Anycast is a configuration method where multiple instances of a service share a single IP address....
YANG Data Modeling Language Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) RFC 6020 is standard-based data modeling language for the NETCONF management protocol. YANG is used to create device configuration requests or requests for operational data. NETCONF and YANG provide the...
A while ago, RIPE Labs published the two-part article BGP Communities – A Weapon for the Internet. That may have been a bit of a shock for those of us making good use of BGP community attributes as an important tool in our BGP arsenal. Those of us a little less...
As a router gains more and more BGP neighbors, two issues arise. The first one is that with many neighbors, whenever the router needs to send out a BGP update, it has to create an update message for each neighbor. Second, the BGP configuration can get quite long and...
