BGP.guru

BGP.guru

A Nerd blog.

19 Jan 2020

Centrally Managed WiFi with MikroTik CAPsMAN

Deploying enterprise WiFi with MikroTik CAPsMAN: configuring centralized management for multiple access points, setting up channels/datapaths/security configs, choosing between local and centralized forwarding, and enabling adaptive noise immunity on Atheros chipsets.
25 Apr 2019

Inadvertent Transit

Analyzing BGP route leak causing AS7122 outage: AS53443 leaked 535,292 DFZ routes from AS6327 during second provider turnup due to missing outbound prefix filters, combined with AS7122 accepting routes without customer filters, congesting 70% of internet-bound traffic for 13 minutes.
09 Feb 2019

Fastnetmon on Ubuntu 18.04

Installing FastNetMon community edition from Ubuntu 18.04 universe repository: configuring exabgp 4.0.2 with new config format using socat and pipe communication, testing BGP BLACKHOLE route injection via /var/run/exabgp.cmd for automated DDoS mitigation.
30 Jan 2019

MRT Dumps with GoBGP

Logging BGP routes with GoBGP MRT dumps: configuring TOML-based RIB dumps every 8 hours and BGP update files every 5 minutes, processing MRT files with BGP Scanner and mrt2mysql.py for Canadian AS-PATH tracking and routing analysis.
26 Sep 2018

The Road to MPLS

Building MPLS Service Provider networks from scratch: implementing VPLS on MikroTik and full L3VPN on HPE Comware, configuring LDP label distribution, understanding MPLS benefits for latency reduction and QoS, and managing customer VRFs with vpnv4 BGP peering.