A quick public service announcement for anyone implementing BGP-LU or deploying it in a multivendor environment.…
Since exploring the EPE basics, now it’s time to understand the building blocks of the solution.…
Egress Peer Engineering extends regular BGP policies to provide more flexibility.…
Segment Routing allows the network operator to deploy Traffic Engineering even with the most basic routers that support the bare minimum of features.…
Segment Routing was supposed to make MPLS easier and give more power to network operators. Sadly, vendors decided to make it harder by selling weird protocols and over-engineered controller bloatware.…
MPLS is such a user-friendly technology it needs a special label that does nothing.
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My recent post about Anycast in Segment Routing led to an interesting argument on whether other MPLS transport protocols can do anycast routing.…
MPLS or Anycast Routing – for a long time, you had to choose one. Segment Routing allows you to have both.…
In any L2 overlay network, ARP handling will always remain a big pain for network operators.…
Instability of routing protocol sessions – or, in the network engineers’ slang, flaps, is by far the most common and the most basic routing problem that ever occurs.
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