Wireshark is the most useful & popular tool for packet Level deep Network Analysis & Troubleshooting. Most importantly, it is open source. It is like a measuring meter or device to find and examine what is going on inside a network cable or port just like a multimeter is used by an electrician to examine what is going on inside an electric cable … but of course at much deeper level. Wireshark or such SW tools are not something very new. Such tools were available in the past as well but they were very expensive and proprietary because they were mostly Read More …
Category: BGP
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet
MP-BGP and Address Families
BGP originally only supports normal IPv4 unicast prefixes. With the passage of time & advancement in Network Technology, the need for support of more prefix types arose. There were two solutions to this problem: First, to invent a whole new protocol or a new version of BGP, Second, to add the extra functionality in the existing BGP. Of course, we chose the second one due to its flexibility & backward compatibility. Hence, MP-BGP came into existence under RFC4760 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4760) in 2007. MP-BGP supported more than 15 different BGP address families and it solved the problem. Nowadays MP-BGP (Multiprotocol BGP) is a Read More …