Bgp
Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era
I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years. I understand leaf-spine fabrics, BGP design, VRF isolation, ECMP, and congestion management.
BGP Communities
BGP Communities has to be one of my favorite features added to the BGP protocol.
BGP Essentials – The Art of Path Manipulation
Most enterprise networks use BGP to peer with their Internet Service Providers if they want to be multi-homed.
BGP Tips! multipath load balancing
Previous thoughts on load balancing BGP were that it is not a load balancing protocol and in order to achieve any sort of balanced traffic you would have to perform some sort of …
More BGP tricks
At times, the ‘rules of BGP’ don’t fit the needs of our productions networks. When we get into today’s production networks how often do book configurations apply?
Route Selection
One of the most common questions I get concerns path selection within the router.
BGP Security Tips (updated)
For some, BGP is a rather large obtrusive beast of a protocol that scares them half to death.