Despite its ubiquity in the global internet, Border Gateway Protocol can be a complicated protocol to understand. BGP can be used as an internal routing protocol, like Open Shortest Path First or ...

I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version. I use it all the time. Sometimes it is just a quick “eyeballing” of it to check to see if all the BGP table ...

No matter what you call it -- prefix hijacking, route hijacking or IP hijacking -- BGP hijacking is when a router improperly advertises itself as having the most efficient route to a victim network.

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 ...