Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

I'm looking for some edge devices. They must be Cisco, by company decree. I'm fine with internal switching/routing and MPLS and basic T1 and such, but I'm a bit weak when it comes to BGP and current ...

@Mods, i am using FRR, an open source routing daemon, but i think my issue is routing configs, not OS. should this change, or if otherwise appropriate, feel free to move this thread. i have a fedora ...

For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn't a hack or a bug. It was problems with the internet data ...

BLACK HAT USA -- Las Vegas -- The Internet's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) seems to be the new darling of hackers and nation-states, but BGP expert Wim Remes says BGP abuse is nothing new -- and ...

A couple of hours before folks on the east coast could see this past Wednesday's sunrise, some found themselves battling to get webpages to load, or found themselves without Internet entirely. It'd be ...

The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind; it was built with communication in mind. In the same way Tina Turner wailed that love is nothing but “a secondhand emotion,” security is an Internet ...

BGP has been open to misconfiguration and abuse for decades; The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) wants that to change. The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has ...

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 ...