Blog Posts in October 2024

Friday, October 4, 2024 07:59 +0200

BGP Labs: Improvements (September 2024)

I spent a few days in a beautiful place with suboptimal Internet connectivity. The only thing I could do whenever I got bored (without waiting for the Internet gnomes to hand-carry the packets across the mountain passes) was to fix the BGP labs on a Ubuntu VM running on my MacBook Air (hint: it all works).

Big things first. I added validation to these labs:

MD5 Passwords and GTSM
Use BGP Timers and BFD to Speed Up BGP Convergence
BGP Route Aggregation
EBGP Sessions over IPv6 LLA Interfaces
Establish an IBGP Session
Build a Transit Network with IBGP
Use BGP Route Reflectors
Using No-Export Community to Filter Transit Routes

Repost: Layer-3-Only EVPN Behind the Scenes

After publishing the EVPN L3VPN lab-building instructions, I published a deep dive into EVPN and data-plane data structures. You might have missed it, as it was published in mid-August.

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