BGP Tutorial for ISP customers – Controlling outbound traffic

Outbound traffic control is actually easier than you thought. If you have single ISP link, all outbound traffic will obviously exit out the link. As I mentioned…

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BGP Tutorial for ISP customers – Enough memory for full routes?

In the most of cases, end-user wants to have full BGP routing table from their upstream provider. Why not! If you have enough memory on…

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BGP Tutorial for ISP customers – Own ASN or borrowing one

In order to setup BGP, minimum requirements are IP address and ASN. Of course your router must support BGP routing protocol. What is ASN? It…

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BGP Tutorial for ISP customers – Do I need BGP?

Even though you are a network admin or telecom tech, if you are not dealing with something in daily basis, you might need assist or at least…

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Historical BGP route analysis by BGPlay tools

Well, I called it "Magic wand for BGP". While I was troubleshooting a BGP routing issue, I discovered really nice tools from Internet. It provide…

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Major inbound traffic issue with Tier2 ISPs

If you have more than two upstream ISP connections, traffic shaping would be one of major consideration for network administrator. Especially, a company has one…

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Load-sharing VS. Load-balancing

What is exact definition of Load-sharing VS. Load-balancing in BGP world? It’s confused and bothered me, so I googled friendly Internet. I found more reasonable…

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Time Warner Telecom AS4323

Attention This BGP Community string information might be outdated. Please contact Time Warner Telecom to get more recent one. This BGP communites is ONLY for…

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XO Communications AS2828

XO Communications  AS2828 BGP Communities Controls Attention This BGP Community string information might be outdated. Please contact XO Communications AS2828 to get more recent one….

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NTT/Verio AS2914

NTT/Verio AS2914 BGP Community String Attention This BGP Community string information might be outdated. Please contact NTT/Verio AS2914 to get more recent one. This BGP…

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