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Why You Need to Monitor BGP

Kentik

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fundamental part of sending data over the internet. In this case, you want to be sure that your routes are correctly advertised and reachable following the change. Advertising routes that cannot deliver traffic is known as “blackholing.” What Can Go Wrong? Route Flapping.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1

Kentik

Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. BGP Basics: Routes, Peers, and Paths. One or multiple border routers. Introducing BGP.

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AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw

Kentik

In simple terms, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol that routes traffic on the Internet. During a BGP route hijack, an attacker advertises IP prefixes from an ASN that is not the normal originator. Here we have the DNS clients sending their DNS queries to the hijacked blocks advertised by AS10297.

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BGP and RPKI: A Path Made Clear with Kentik

Kentik

Border Gateway Protocol (more commonly known as BGP ) is the routing protocol that makes the internet work. In this case it was due to more specific prefixes that should not have been advertised. The entire RPKI process stands outside of the BGP routing protocol itself. It’s called RPKI. How Does RPKI Work?

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 2

Kentik

More Basics: Advertising, Homing, and Cardinal Sins. In part 1 of this series, we established that BGP is the protocol used to route traffic across the interconnected Autonomous Systems (AS) that make up the Internet. Advertising Routes. For example, if you advertise 192.204.4.0/24 If you have any other networks (e.g.

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How to Configure Static Routes on Cisco

NW Kings

Unlike dynamic routes, learned through dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) or EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol), static routes require the network administrator to specify the next hop or destination IP address. What is a Static Route? What are the disadvantages of dynamic routing?

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. Each AS advertises which IP addresses it can route traffic to, helping traffic move from its source AS to the AS closest to its destination.