Configuring BGP

It is very easy to bring BGP session minimum needs a configuration. Just three lines of icon_BGP.png BGP statement will bring BGP session.

Configure and contol inbound traffic

It’s very important to control inbound traffic when you are configuring BGP. icon_BGP.png If you have more than one ISP links, you should ascertain that your BGP announcement is peddled in the Internet. If you have only one link to the ISP, you don’t require BGP. Your requirements will be satisfied by a simple static route statement.

Configure and contol outbound traffic

Outbound traffic control is no very difficult. If you have single ISP link, icon.BGP.pngall outbound traffic will obviously exit out the link. If you have single ISP link you don’t really need BGP. If you have more than two ISP links you may have more questions. The bigges problems are redundancy and load-sharing.

Do I need BGP?

Even though you are a network admin or telecom tech, if you are not dealing with something in daily basis, you might need icon_BGP.png assist or at least chasing technical information to achieve. BGP ( Border Gateway Protocol) is the one of them. There is great amount of information about BGP on Internet.

Enough memory for full routes?

Most often end-user wants to have full BGP routing table from their upstream provider. icon_BGP.png Why not! Certified memory is really expensive. It is not like PC memory. In this article, we are just talking about BGP routing table in IPv4 address basis.

Historical BGP route analysis by BGPlay tools

The invention of BGP has really interesting history. Its ancestor is BGPlay designed and written by the Computer Networks Research Group at Roma Tre University. BGPlay is a Java application which displays animated graphs of the routing activity of a certain prefix within a specified time interval. Its graphical nature makes it much easier to understand how BGP updates affect the routing of a specific prefix than by analyzing the updates themselves. To get more details, visit origin website.

How to configure secure BGP?

How to configure secure BGP? It’s one of the most frequently asked questions. There are few ways to make safe BGP session. Remember that ISP doesn’t provide all below commands. They would configure MD5 hash for your link.