Hurricane Electric route table over 800,000 routes
Had a Hurricane peer without any filtering or the like reach over 800,000 routes toda
Cisco ORF (Outbound route filtering)
Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) is a Cisco proprietary feature that prevents the unnecessary exchanging of routes that are subject to inbound filtering.
Route Server Diagram for an IX
Normally on a peering exchange, all connected parties will establish bilateral peering relationships with each other customer connected to the exchange. As the number of connected parties increases, it becomes increasingly more difficult to manage peering relationships with customers of …
Cisco 100 gig switch install
Installation of a new Cisco 100 gig switch
The problem with speedtests
Imagine this scenario. Outside your house, the most awesome superhighway has been built. It has a speed limit of 120 Mile Per Hour. You calculate at those speeds you can get to and from work 20 minutes earlier. Life is …
Cisco ISP essentials
An oldie but a goodie. Very Cisco focused and a little dated, but lots of good info here for Internet Service Providers. Find it on amazon pretty inexpensive these days.
“Glue addresses” in networking
The glue address is the address that binds, aka glues, your network to another network
Remote Peering
Martin J. Levy from Cloudflare did a presentation about remote peering possibly being a bad thing. In this presentation, he brings up several valid points. https://www.globalpeeringforum.org/pastEvents/gpf14/presentations/Wed_2_MartinLevy_remote_peering_is_bad_for.pdf Some thoughts of my own. Yes, remote peering is happening. One thing touched upon …