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Cisco: 2-Bytes / 4-Bytes ASN BGP scenarios

Cisco: 2-Bytes / 4-Bytes ASN BGP scenarios

In my last post I wrote some basics about the new 4-bytes AS number which is supported on new Cisco IOS images. Now I would like to give you a brief overview about different BGP peering scenarios that you can meet in the real world. Even if the configuration examples in this article are on a Cisco hardware...
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4-bytes Autonomous System Number

4-bytes Autonomous System Number

Last week I received a form from APNIC with a new AS numbers. When I had a look through papers I saw there something strange: AS 123456 (I replaced the original with this number). 6 digits. First I thought that there is a mistake or something, then I recall the new 4-bytes ASN. If for IPv6 the things...
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Cisco: 6 best practice security tips for BGP

Cisco: 6 best practice security tips for BGP

As we all know, in today’s digital communication world, there is a very big possibility that your network is or was target for a malicious activity. BGP is one of the most targeted routing protocols when we are talking about network attacks.Why? This is quite simple. BGP is your connection to the...
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Cisco: BGP path selection for inbound traffic

Cisco: BGP path selection for inbound traffic

In some previous post we saw how we can manipulate BGP paths using attributes for outgoing traffic. Today we will see how to use another BGP attribute, but this time for manipulating inbound traffic. First I would like to ask you to have a look into the topology file and also to check the config files...
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Cisco: How to improve BGP table stability with route dampening

Cisco: How to improve BGP table stability with route dampening

One of the issues that can affect BGP table stability is link flapping. Imagine that if a link to a network is flapping very often, BGP process has to remove the route to that network from the BGP table and implicit from the routing table and then we the link is available again to re-introduce the prefix...
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Cisco: BGP path selection for outgoing traffic

Cisco: BGP path selection for outgoing traffic

Before going further on, please download the topology and the initial configuration files and have a close look into them (mostly into topology drawing). Also, this tutorial is addressed to people that know what is BGP and how to do a basic configuration for peering establishing. For modifying the BGP...
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