CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

As a result, Internet devices usually use a single path and let the routers handle the path selection. This can be done on Linux with: # Linux server sysctl - useful for ECMP or Anycast servers $ sysctl -w net.mptcp.allow_join_initial_addr_port=0 There is also a second way to advertise a listening IP/port. There is another way.

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The Network DNA

JULY 5, 2024

VXLAN EVPN Basic Topology EVPN Route Type The EVPN control plane advertises the following types of information: Ethernet auto-discovery (AD) routes are route type 1. The Ethernet segment identity, Ethernet Tag ID, and EVPN instance information are advertised using this sort of Ethernet Auto-Discovery (EAD) route.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Vendor’s data centers have private links to their own routers which are set up in AWS Direct Connect Locations. Direct Connect Location: a high-speed AWS network traffic exchange center that contains both AWS Direct Connect routers and vendor’s routers. The VGW is a VPC edge router for exposing internal traffic.

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Kentik

JULY 8, 2019

It is the language spoken by routers to determine how packets can be sent from one router to another to reach their final destination. In this case it was due to more specific prefixes that should not have been advertised. This method pairs routers with a server, which is aptly called a “validator”. It’s called RPKI.

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Kentik

AUGUST 15, 2016

Further Thoughts on Advertising Your Routes with BGP. Since every packet destined for the Internet (as opposed to your internal network) is going to go out the same router interface, it doesn’t matter whether it does so via one default route or via searching a list of 45,000 or more routes heard via BGP. BGP for the multi-homed.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

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. NOTE : Join our Network Specialist Master’s Program today!

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Layer-3 Service Insertion With L3 service insertion, network services in the datacenter are inserted at the router. Users in Subnet #1 send traffic to their router that does an L3 lookup and forwards packets to the servers in Subnet #2. Virtual route forwarding (VRF) is typically enabled with a VRF for one side of the router (Subnet.#1

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Kentik

AUGUST 1, 2016

In particular we’ve learned that speaking or advertising BGP to your service providers and/or peers lets you do two things: Make semi-intelligent routing decisions concerning the best path for a particular route to take outbound from your network (otherwise you would simply set a default route from your border routers into your service providers).

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Kentik

JULY 25, 2016

More Basics: Advertising, Homing, and Cardinal Sins. Advertising Routes. As discussed in Part 1, the path traveled by traffic is referred to as a route, and BGP is the protocol by which one “advertises” to the Internet the routes available to get traffic to your AS. For example, if you advertise 192.204.4.0/24

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2019

A common DDoS mitigation technique is Remotely-Triggered Black Hole (RTBH), which requires extensive pre-configuration of discard routes and/or uRPF on all edge routers. These attributes are added to the NLRI field within the BGP Update Message that’s advertised to peers and define the particular traffic that the Flowspec route will match.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The route is then redistributed via BGP — along with a ‘no-export’ community and a next-hop address — to the routers where the attack traffic is entering the network. These routers then route the traffic to a destination that doesn’t exist (the black hole), for example a null interface. Click the Create a Mitigation Platform button. -

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Kentik

OCTOBER 6, 2017

A new blog post from Google talks about Dnsmasq, which “provides functionality for serving DNS, DHCP, router advertisements and network boot and is commonly installed in systems as varied as desktop Linux distributions (like Ubuntu), home routers, and IoT devices.” Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities (Google Blog).

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

As an example of what can happen, the Mirai malware set loose in late 2016 created a botnet of IoT devices that included ordinary consumer devices such as security cameras, routers, and other home use IoT devices purposely designed to take websites and entire networks offline. The scale of the initial Mirai-based attack was eye-opening.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 19, 2016

If you run hybrid Cloud, and you’re running at least some of your own infrastructure, then again switches, routers, BGP tables, but to get that sort of augmented information, it can come from the host agent. We’ve got an advertising technology customer, and ad tech is a really interesting space for network sophistication.

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Kentik

JUNE 5, 2023

Disruptions and attacks caused by BGP incidents In BGP parlance, the term “routing leak” broadly refers to a routing incident in which one or more BGP advertisements are propagated between ASes in a way they were not intended to. Two competing methodologies, RPSL and RPKI, are used to inform the defensive configuration of routers.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2021

As the internet grew, the pool of available IPv4 dwindled until a private market emerged to facilitate the sale of what was no longer just a simple router setting, but an increasingly precious commodity. Over the years, only a portion of that address space was ever utilized (i.e. announced by the DoD on the internet).

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