bgp

A network engineer provides a free service offering full BGP feeds for IPv4 and IPv6, intended for lab use, with detailed configuration examples for Cisco IOS and IOS XR.

This article describes how Akvorado, a network flow analysis tool, scales its BMP Routing Information Base (RIB) by implementing sharding to handle tens of millions of routes, improving concurrent updates performance.

The author builds a personal Content Delivery Network (CDN) distributed across three servers worldwide by owning their own Autonomous System (AS) and using BGP anycast along with DNS, in order to optimize user connection latency. The article explains in detail the working principles of BGP anycast and traffic engineering methods.