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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) routes traffic over telecommunications networks using short path labels instead of longer network addresses. BGP The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a protocol for exchanging routing information between different autonomous systems (ASes) on the Internet.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

A mis-origination occurs when an AS originates (announces with its ASN as the origin) a new advertisement of a route to an IP address block over which it does not possess legitimate control, consequently soliciting traffic destined to those IP addresses.

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Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

CloudFaire

They are part of the HTTP protocol and allow communication between clients (such as browsers) and servers. In this case, the attacker would request content from the caching system and spoof the victim's IP address as the source IP in the UDP packets. Then clients would request the files from those IP addresses.