Simon Fraser University

Route Flap Damping and Policies

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an Inter-Autonomous System (AS) routing protocol currently used in the Internet. The Minimal Route Advertisement Interval (MRAI) plays a prominent role in ...
Ars Technica

Convergence fun! Calculating worst case scenarios (BGP VPNs)

I am trying to figure out what the worst case scenario for VPN convergence will be using only LDP, and a route-reflector topology in our head-end campus for sites with DMVPN connectivity. Based on my ...
Simon Fraser University

Route Flap Damping and Adaptive Minimal Route Advertisement Interval in ns-BGP 2.0

The duration of the Minimal Route Advertisement Interval (MRAI) and the implementation of MRAI timers have a significant impact on the BGP convergence time. The adaptive MRAI is a mechanism that we ...
Bleeping Computer

Cisco IOS XR vulnerability lets attackers crash BGP on routers

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the ...