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 ...

See how to install, set up, and use Zebra to build a Linux system that can serve as an OSPF and BGP router. You’ve no doubt heard of routers from giants such as Cisco and Nortel, but what about Linux?

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.

Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. Now a solution called Free ...

Got into a what could have been a heated argument today with one of the guys at work. For various reasons I chose not to escalate the discussion, but rather decided to ask you guys. We have a Cisco ...

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 ...