BGP
BGP errors, BGP error codes, and BGP error handling.
In this blog post we’ll be looking at BGP errors. For that, our first question should be: is there an error, or is everything...
BGP – the right tool for so many jobs
Like other very successful protocols such as HTTP and DNS, over the years BGP has been given more and more additional jobs to do....
BGP security: an overview of the RPKI framework
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system is a way to couple an IP address range to an autonomous system number through cryptographic signatures,...
The 768k or Another Internet Doomsday? Here’s how to deal with the TCAM overflow at the 768k boundary.
On August 8th, 2014 some ISPs experienced a phenomenon called the “512k Day”. The global BGP routing table, which consists of the global Internet...
BGP Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU)
This blog post discusses BGP Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU) which is used in multi-regional networks to carry the label information. While the RFC3107 “Carrying Label...
Recursive Lookup in BGP
The aim of this article is to discuss the importance of Recursive Lookup in BGP. First of all we need to understand the purpose...
Accumulated IGP and BGP
RFC 7311 defines an optional non-transitive BGP attribute called the Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute (AIGP).
As we know, IGP stands for Interior Gateway Protocol...
QoS Policy and its propagation via BGP (QPPB)
Quality of Service (QoS) refers to a collection of technologies that networking devices use to apply different treatment to packets as they pass through...
BGP Conditional Route Injection
We have recently posted the BGP Route Aggregation eBook that discusses the benefits of route aggregation and explains the various optional parameters associated with...
BGP Route Dampening: obsolete or still used in the industry?
The unstable route whose availability alters repeatedly is called a flap. When flaps occur, fexcessive number of BGP UPDATE messages are sent to BGP...
