Characterizing IPv6 traffic load balancing
Guest Post: Traffic load balancing is a common solution to bandwidth demands. Using a modified traceroute tool, researchers in Brazil are examining load balancing in IPv6 networks.
Tag: routing
What stops IPv6 traffic in a dual-stack ISP?
Guest Post: This study examines the experience of 13,000 ADSL subscribers of a major ISP to determine what causes traffic to be carried over IPv4 or IPv6.
BGP Table Fragmentation: What & Who?
Guest Post: The BGP routing table continues to grow. How is prefix deaggregation contributing to this growth?
Overcoming traffic engineering challenges with SDN
Guest Post: The scalability and flexibility offered by software-defined networking can address numerous challenges associated with traffic engineering.
IPv4 Service Continuity over IPv6-only Networks: Focus on Multicast Services
Guest Post: RFC8114 provides a solution to deliver IPv4 multicast services to IPv4 clients over an IPv6 multicast network.
Improving peering relationships in Japan
Guest Post: Learn about the peering characteristics of Japan Internet Exchange.
Isolario improving understanding of AS ecosystem
Guest Post: Isolario is a free to use, real-time BGP route collecting project, which aims to improve the knowledge about the AS-level ecosystem of the Internet.
Thoughts on IETF 98
Geoff Huston shares his impressions from IETF 98 Working Groups and sessions, including DNSOPS, Homenet, IPv6, QUIC and Multi-Path TCP.
IXP automation made easy with new open-source tool
Guest Post: New open-source program, ARouteServer, provides automatic, as-secure-as-possible and feature-rich route server configurations.
BGP in 2016
Geoff Huston analyses BGP trends for 2016 and offers his predictions for IPv4 and IPv6 BGP tables sizes for the next five years.