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IPB159: IPv6 Basics – Router Advertisements

Packet Pushers

Our series on IPv6 basics continues with Router Advertisements (RAs) within the Neighbor Discovery Protocol. Read more » Our series on IPv6 basics continues with Router Advertisements (RAs) within the Neighbor Discovery Protocol. We also talk about the importance of understanding the.

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Wait, Did AS8003 just disappear?

Kentik

However, despite the new origin (AS749) these prefixes are still routed exclusively through Hurricane Electric (AS6939) and traceroutes to the address space die at a router in Ashburn, Virginia (72.52.92.226, 100ge5-1.core2.ash1.he.net) he.net) as they did previously when AS8003 was the origin. Old AS paths: … 6939 8003.

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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? BGP Route Misconfigurations.

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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. An internal routing scheme so that every router in a given AS knows how to get to every other router and destination within the same AS.

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Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

CloudFaire

As a result, Internet devices usually use a single path and let the routers handle the path selection. It's a major extension to the TCP protocol, and historically most of the TCP changes failed to gain traction. During the lifetime of a connection, a peer can send an ADD-ADDR MPTCP signal which advertises a listening IP/port.

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How to Configure Static Routes on Cisco

NW Kings

In this blog, we will explore what static routes are, how they differ from dynamic routes, and how to configure them on routers like Cisco devices. This characteristic makes them efficient for routers with limited processing capabilities. What is a Static Route? A static route is a manually configured path in a routing table.

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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. It is the language spoken by routers to determine how packets can be sent from one router to another to reach their final destination. The entire RPKI process stands outside of the BGP routing protocol itself.

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