Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


BGP Security Issues and Solutions

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:30 PM PDT


As the Internet's de facto interdomain routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the glue that holds the disparate parts of the Internet together. A major limitation of BGP is its failure to adequately address security. Recent high-profile outages and security analyses clearly indicate that the Internet routing infrastructure is highly vulnerable. Moreover, the [...]

Administrative Distance

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT


An administrative distance is used to define the value or merit of routing information received by the router from its neighbor router. An administrative distance is an integer from 0 to 255 where 0 is defined as most trusted and 255 is the least trusted one which means no traffic will be passed through the [...]

Dynamic Routing

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:30 PM PDT


Dynamic routing is when protocols are used to update the routing table automatically. In other words the process in which such routing protocols are used which find networks, update routing tables on routers and communicate this routing information with their neighbor routers are called dynamic routing. The protocols which are used in this process are [...]

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