Another Reason to Filter announcements

Another Reason to Filter announcements

Do you filter all the networks that are being announced by your routing protocols? The consequences are known, but yet there is another one that often goes unnoticed: the potential impact on you other peerings introduced by unfiltered peering IP prefixes. In a network...
BFD over LAG Design

BFD over LAG Design

You might face a situation where you’re considering establishing a LAG port (whether using LACP, manual configuration, etc.), or perhaps you’re planning a maintenance window and considering shutting down a link within a LAG port, assuming it won’t...
The Impact of BGP Update Delay

The Impact of BGP Update Delay

Consider a scenario where your network architecture features two redundant CE routers linked to two PE routers. In this setup, the PE routers are configured to transmit only the default route to the CE routers, particularly beneficial for Branch routers, which...
Multipath eiBGP Design Review

Multipath eiBGP Design Review

There are plenty of documents online discussing Multipath BGP, but few seem to address the need for using eiBGP for load sharing (ie. eBGP and iBGP at the same time). Overview of the topics covered in this review: Why and when do we need  eiBGP Multipath The pros...