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BGP roles in BIRD

BGP roles in BIRD

BGP roles for route leak prevention Not long ago (May 2022 according to the document) a new RFC on BGP was published. This one, numbered 9234, is about route leak detection and prevention. We all know what to do to prevent route leaks and MANRS is doing a great job here, spreading the word about filtering, RPKI and other related stuff. However, this does not stop all the disturbances and especially leaks to happen all over the Internet. Qrator, for…

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Routing with BIRD

Routing with BIRD

As I mentioned in previous post I will like to dive into some Linux traffic routing and forwarding. So today we will be looking at one of routing daemons available for *nix OSes – BIRD. What it is BIRD is a routing daemon targeted at Linux and BSD distros supported by cz.nic, Czech domain name registry, which are responsible for a number of other very interesting projects [1]. Daemon support both IPv4 and IPv6, number of routing protocols (BGP, RIP,…

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