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RSSThe Packet Pushers recently had a briefing with Chris Grundemann about startup FullCtl. FullCtl is all about network automation for internet exchanges, service providers, large enterprises, and anyone else looking…
READ MORERuss White continues the discussion about BGP peering in part two of this lesson. Topics covered include: -Challenges with link-local next hop with IPv6 -How different BGP implementations handle these…
READ MOREThe first video in this second module of Russ White’s BGP course covers peering, including why BGP uses TCP for transport, passive and active peer, multi-hop peering, collisions, and more.…
READ MOREIljitsch van Beijnum, Network Engineer and author, is our guest blogger today with a post about peering sponsored by Noction Intelligent Routing Platform. Most farmers most of the time sell…
READ MOREThis is a continuation from last week’s post on provider peering streams. Second Example: Customer to Noncustomer Assume traffic is coming in from A and is destined to M. How…
READ MOREIn the last post in this series, I described several types of providers — and even how those descriptions are no longer really “pure,” for the most part (although NTT,…
READ MOREOne of the confusing aspects of Internet operation is the difference between the types of providers and the types of peering. There are three primary types of peering, and three…
READ MOREMy new job sucked a little time away from me at the start, and now I am getting back on board with some nice new blog posts. Much like any…
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