Packets DownRange
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Recently, there has been much talk about the Cloudflare BGP blunder and others. But did you know there was one involving the entire /12 of IPV6 space
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Using BGP in large scale networks and how to get the most out of it. Paper by Noction
Explainer video about what an Internet exchange point (IXP) is and how peering works. Making the internet better through 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 is the layer3 vs layer2 traffic. We at MidWest-IX only allow remote peering at a … Read more
This document defines the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP), which can be used to monitor BGP sessions.
For the purpose of part one of this article we will talk about communities and how they can be utilized for traffic coming into your network
BGP confederation is a method to use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to subdivide a single autonomous system (AS) into multiple internal sub-AS’s
Many ISPs run into this problem as part of their growing pains. This scenario usually starts happening with their third or 4th peer.