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How I learned to love BGP communities and so can you

March 15, 2026May 11, 2019 by j2sw

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

Categories Internet Architecture, Network Operations Tags bgp, Cisco, communties, juniper, mikrotik, peer, peering, routing, transit

Transit, peer, upstream. What do they all mean?

March 15, 2026May 4, 2019 by j2sw

As you dive into the realm of BGP, you will hear many terms in regards to peers.  Knowing their names AND your definition of them will serve you well.

Categories Internet Architecture Tags bandwidth, bgp, peer, transit, upstream

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