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Cisco: 6 best practice security tips for BGP

By On February 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 exterior world (peer networks, Internet and everything which is outside your LAN/MAN), so it is somehow normal to be the main target of the conducted attacks. If in case of the WWW, DNS, [...]

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Cisco: BGP path selection for inbound traffic

By On December 10, 2008 · 3 Comments

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 (if you have a basic idea about how BGP is configured that you don’t need the config files).

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