Should you update your Route Flap Damping parameters?
Guest Post: Network operators should regularly check their RFD configurations for harmful vendor defaults.
Tag: BGP
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’.
Basic routing concepts, part 2: BGP is just harnessing gossip
Is BGP one giant, global network of gossip about routes?
Basic routing concepts, part 1: Prefixes
Prefixes are fundamental to routing. How do they work?
What’s ‘interop testing’ and why is it so tricky?
What happens when two people correctly read the same RFC yet their implementations of that protocol still differ?
More notes from IETF 111
Geoff Huston discusses currently active IETF areas that are not DNS related.