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BGP Routing Changes: Merging Views From Two ISPs
White Papers Large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) experience millions of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing changes a day. This paper discusses the impact of BGP routing changes on the flow of traffic, summarizing and reconciling the results from six...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
BGP: Testing The Protocol Of The Internet
White Papers Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol of the Internet. This Spirent Communications White Paper explains the origins of BGP, provides an overview of the key technology concepts behind the protocol, and discusses the issues faced by equipment...
[October 20, 2003, 0:00]
BGP Maintenance For The ISP
White Papers By using several BGP tuning techniques ISPs can improve their service level and reduce the need for costly upstream link upgrades. This paper takes a look at BGP tuning, the tuning techniques themselves, and also discusses best practices for...
[December 4, 2003, 23:00]
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
White Papers One protocol that addresses the task of path determination in today's networks is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This article summarizes the basic operations of BGP and provides a description of its protocol components.
[January 11, 2004, 23:00]
RFC 2547bis: BGP/MPLS VPN Hierarchial And Recursive Applications
White Papers A detailed description of the operation of hierarchical and recursive BGP/MPLS VPNs as described in RFC 2547bis.
[May 19, 2004, 0:00]
Policy-Based BGP Control Architecture For Autonomous Routing Management
White Papers This paper describes the BGP-control architecture called VR (Virtual Router) that can dynamically change forwarding paths considering alternative paths, which are inferred from historical data and con-firmed when they are actually applied.
[June 9, 2007, 0:00]
CNPC BGP Reduces Costs With Oracle Grid Computing
White Papers CNPC BGP Inc. BGP) is one of the world's leading onshore geophysical service providers. The company faced the challenge of creating a single interface for all applications to ensure safety, efficiency and stability of the company's IT...
[November 21, 2005, 23:00]
Use IP And BGP To Troubleshoot Internet Connectivity
News The IP perspective is straightforward compared to BGP. BGP is a path-vector routing protocol. Just as a standard routing protocol such as RIP selects the best route based on hop count, BGP selects the best path based on the shortest autonomous...
[June 24, 2003, 15:35]
Integrated Provider Edge (PE) Services Switch: Maximizing The Value Of Your BGP/MPLS VPN Deployment
White Papers These router software upgrades provide RFC 2547 functionality, which because it relies on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is more commonly known as BGP/MPLS VPNs. Given that the already highly competitive and commoditized Internet Service Provider...
[July 21, 2003, 0:00]
Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Malformed BGP Packet Causes Reload
White Papers A Cisco device running IOS and enabled for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DOS) attack from a malformed BGP packet. The BGP protocol is not enabled by default, and must be configured in order to accept...
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
Impact Of BGP Dynamics On Router CPU Utilization
White Papers The BGP routing protocol has a potential for significantly impacting CPU load due to the nature of the protocol. This paper examines the impact of BGP activity on operational routers in the Sprint IP network.
[July 31, 2007, 0:00]
CNPC-BGP Lowers Total Cost Of Ownership By Simplifying Infrastructure Management
White Papers CNPC-BGP Inc. BGP) is one of the world's leading onshore geophysical service providers. Increasing competition has put pressure on BGP to improve efficiency and lower costs. To address this issue, BGP decided to integrate its disparate systems onto...
[November 5, 2007, 23:00]
Sun Delivers High Performance
White Papers BGP became a limited liability company in 2002, with its shares mainly held by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). BGP adopted Sun servers because they realized the prospective importance of 64-bit applications.
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
Router Security Hole Threatens Web
News The border gateway protocol (BGP), a widely used technology for efficiently routing data through the Internet, is rife with security holes and needs to be replaced, a security consultant warned. However, a technological chicken-and-egg problem has...
[March 3, 2003, 10:58]
Preserving Established Communications In IPv6 Multi- Homed Sites With MEX
White Papers While multi - homing addresses this issue, the currently available solution based in massive BGP route injection present serious scalability limitations, since it contributes to the exponential growth of the BGP table size.
[October 31, 2004, 0:00]
IPv6 Transition Test Challenges
White Papers This paper describes three test scenarios: a functional test scenario for configured and automatic tunneling, a functional test scenario for the routing protocol BGP-4+ based on draft-ietf-ngtrans-bgp-tunnel, and a stress test scenario based on...
[October 27, 2004, 0:00]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack Disrupts Internet Routing
White Papers The paper discovers that the recently identified low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attacks can have severe impact on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). As the interdomain routing protocol on today's Internet, BGP is the critical infrastructure for...
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
A Study Of End-to-End Web Access Failures
White Papers Second, the paper correlate failures attributed to a client or server with BGP churn for the corresponding IP address prefix(es), to shed light on the end-to-end impact of BGP instability. This paper presents a study of end-to-end web access...
[May 25, 2007, 0:00]
Connecting IPv6 Islands With IPv4 MPLS
White Papers Juniper Networks supports the MP-BGP over IPv4 approach detailed in the IETF Internet draft Connecting IPv6 Domains across IPv4 Clouds with BGP. Many service providers are looking for ways to provide new revenue-generating services to their customers.
[October 27, 2004, 0:00]
Threat From TCP Hole 'small' - Researcher
News Sites that have routers that share information on the most efficient paths through the Internet -- using the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP -- are most vulnerable to the attacks. Instead of a one in 4 billion chance to guess the right number, a...
[April 22, 2004, 9:05]
