Three of the best: Geoff Huston
In 2021, Geoff delivered several insightful posts, here are three of the best.
Tag: BGP
Better route monitoring with BMP
Guest Post: BGP Monitoring Protocol is being standardized and adopted. Here are the latest developments.
Notes from RIPE 83
Geoff Huston discusses technical presentations from RIPE 83.
ARP problems in EVPN
Guest Post: Why you should always set ARP timeout to less than five minutes in L3 EVPN and beware potential ARP suppression issues in L2 EVPN.
Should you update your Route Flap Damping parameters?
Guest Post: Network operators should regularly check their RFD configurations for harmful vendor defaults.
More notes from IETF 112
Geoff Huston on currently active IETF routing security, IPv6, and transport discussions.
Micro BGP Suite: the Swiss Army Knife of routing analysis
Guest Post: If you’re a fan of BGP Scanner, you’ll love Micro BGP Suite.
Checking prefix filtering in IXPs with BIRD and OpenBGPD
Guest Post: How to configure the two most common routing daemons used in IXP environments.
Micro BGP Suite
Guest Post: Shell tools for MRT dumps and where to find them.
Basic routing concepts, part 3: Trust but verify BGP
The third post in this series examines the risks in BGP that make it important to ‘trust but verify’.