Routing data around the Internet has never been an easy task. With so much traffic permeating the net, choosing the right path to move data from point A to point B is becoming a real challenge. And ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

Got into a what could have been a heated argument today with one of the guys at work. For various reasons I chose not to escalate the discussion, but rather decided to ask you guys. We have a Cisco ...

Network Engineers are always looking for new ways to gain some low-cost network testing capabilities. Few companies sufficiently fund networking labs for their networking teams to learn on prior to ...

Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.

A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, ...