We just rolled out Noction Flow Analyzer (NFA) version 24.12. Here’s a quick rundown of...
Internet of Things and BGP
The Internet of Things (IoT) attracts huge public attention nowadays. It is a network of interconnected physical...
BGP and Cryptocurrencies
What is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is a digital asset that works as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to...
BGP in Large-Scale Data Centers
Large-scale data centers (DCs) connect hundreds of thousands or even more servers, having millions of users....
BGP LLDP Peer Discovery
Just like with the other routing protocols such as OSPF or EIGRP, BGP speaking routers first need to become neighbors...
BGP Session Culling
This article discusses BGP session culling techniques that mitigate a negative impact of maintenance of Internet...
BGP over GRE Tunnel
In this blog post we are going to explain how Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel might be used in a situation...
What BGP Looking Glass servers are and how network administrators use them.
Whether you are an experienced network administrator or you have just started to learn Border Gateway Protocol (BGP),...
Noction bets on BGP FlowSpec
While networks are agnostic to the content of the serviced packets, end users have a very good understanding of what...
Migrating to BGP
Here on the Noction blog we've covered many aspects of using BGP to connect your network to the internet. However,...
BGP and equal-cost multipath (ECMP)
One given in the network world is that bandwidth will increase. So that Gigabit Ethernet link that provided bandwidth...
Lesser-known BGP path attributes
The past few weeks we've discussed the main BGP path attributes: the next hop, the AS path, the MED. We also covered...
Optimizing network performance for online gaming
In many online games, very good network performance is a prerequisite for satisfactory gameplay. However, there are...
BGP security: announcing prefixes without authorization
In our last post, we looked at protecting the TCP session that carries BGP information between two routers, mainly...
BGP Security: the MD5 password and GTSM
[This post launches the “BGP Security Month” on Noction blog, which will continue with other 3 posts to come till the...
Do route optimizers cause fake routes?
Yesterday, an incident occurred where an Autonomous System (AS) advertised more than 7,000 prefixes that belong to...
What should your peering policy look like?
As discussed in earlier posts, as networks grow larger it starts making sense to exchange traffic with other networks...
IPv4 BGP vs IPv6 BGP
BGP is older than IPv6. Even BGP-4, the version we still use today, predates IPv6: the first BGP-4 RFC (RFC 1654) was...
The top 4 causes of network downtime
Business people often believe that in order to have a reliable system, you need reliable components. Using reliable...
Filtering your BGP updates
One thing we all learn quickly after getting started with BGP is that if left to its own devices, the protocol will...
Why BGP is not enough? – Infographic
It’s common knowledge that Border Gateway Protocol has no ability to make performance-based routing decisions and...