BGP Security

March 23rd, 2010 Wael Osama Posted in BGP 2 Comments »

BGP is a critical component of the internet, bring BGP down and you bring the internet down or at least large portions of the internet. The problem is that BGP is highly vulnerable to many types of attacks for its implementation. BGP runs over TCP on port 179 and inherits all types of TCP common [...]

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Choosing PE-CE Routing protocol

March 15th, 2010 Wael Osama Posted in BGP, MPLS 2 Comments »

When it comes to choosing your PE-CE routing protocol, Which one do you think is best? Choosing the PE-CE routing protocol for MPLS VPNĀ  is an ongoing debate between back end network teams and those who have customer interface roles. They are always trying to satisfy the customer and we are always trying to keep [...]

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BGP Routing Information Base (RIB)

March 11th, 2010 Wael Osama Posted in BGP No Comments »

BGP is an intimate friend for all service provider engineers. Without BGP there is no internet, there is no MPLS VPN and there are no many other things now and in the days to come. I believe its healthy to visit your friends from time to time and know how you live Any BGP speaker [...]

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BGP table analysis and statistics

December 9th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in BGP, Network Design No Comments »

For those of you who are interested in obtaining some useful information about the BGP table (Internet routing table), check out the following websites for some useful reports, analysis and statistics. Nice resources for daily work, research and planning. Play around: BGP Routing Table Analysis Reports. Check bgp4.as also forĀ  a ton of tools and [...]

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BGP Next-hop address tracking

April 2nd, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in BGP 2 Comments »

In this post we are going slightly deep into BGP operation on the CISCO IOS. Lets start this by discussing the BGP scanner operation, then we can talk about the next-hop address tracking feature. For each route installed in the BGP table a next hop address must exist and this next hop must be reachable [...]

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Why BGP?

March 25th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in BGP 1 Comment »

This question is mostly repeated by newbies when they start learning about BGP and sometimes it is left unanswered clearly. In the simple dialogue below I will try to explain when BGP is mostly used and why? Can we connect two or more networks by an IGP? The answer is yes from the technical point [...]

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