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On-line BGP Resources and Information

Articles, Papers, How-Tos, Introductions and Presentations

• Jacco Tunnissen's www.bgp.as, with many BGP links
• Understanding BGP Misconfiguration
• The Impact of Internet Policy and Topology on Delayed Routing Convergence
• The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection
• Analyzing the Internet's BGP Routing Table ( PDF version) ( RFC 3221, which is the same or very similar)
• SANS Institute Is The Border Gateway Protocol Safe? (PDF)
• RIPE BGP Cheat Sheet
• BGP multihoming tutorial by Philip Smith (Cisco)
• Stephen Gill's BGP on Juniper documents (and some other things as well)
• BGP Multihoming Techniques presentation (many slides!)
• Merit IPMA Internet Routing Recommendations
• Connect's FAQ on multihoming and BGP
• BGP4 Case Studies/Tutorials by Sam Halabi
• Aaron Hughes' Routing Page at BIND
• James Aldridge's Routing Page
• Tim Griffin's Interdomain Routing Links
• Tim Griffin's Research on the BGP Routing Protocol
• Cisco Publications - Internet Protocol Journal
• Java Implementation of BGP-4
• Route Views Project Page
• BGP 102: Scaling the Network
• IPv6 Routing Information from STBEN-BE
• The ISP-Lists ISP-BGP
• Frequently Asked Question on Multi-homing and BGP
• NetConfigs.Com BGP & IP Networking Resources
• SIGCOMM'99 An Analysis of BGP Convergence Properties
• Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Presentation
• Joe Lindsay's "The BGP Page"
• RIPE-229: RIPE Routing-WG Recommendation for Coordinated Route-flap Damping Parameters

BGP Security

• Rob Thomas' Secure BGP Template
• Secure BGP
• Secure Border Gateway Protocol (S-BGP)
• Russ White on soBGP in the Internet Protocol Journal
• soBGP info from Cisco's FTP site
• Working Around BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy of Interdomain Routing paper (PDF)
• A short discussion on BGP security on the main page of BGPexpert.com

Looking Glasses

• Allegiance Telecom NAP Looking Glass (formerly Digex)
• Optus Looking Glass
• CTSnet BGP Routing Table Entries
• ACOnet Looking Glass
• ILAN Looking Glass
• IMAG IPv6 Looking Glass
• route-views.oregon-ix.net (telnet)
• AMS-IX Looking Glass
• AMS-IX IPv6 Looking Glass
• Ghost Route Hunter Distributed IPv6 Looking Glass

Global Routing Table and AS Number Statistics and Other Tools

• APNIC - BGP Statistics
• BGP Table Data
• The old CIDR Report
• The new CIDR Report
• CIDR Report Routing Table History Plot
• Rob's BGP Data Page (several types of statistics)
• The Netlantis Project

Tools

• MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher
• FreeIPdb
• MIT's BGP Monitor

Vendor Information

• Cisco - BGP Technical Tips
• Cisco - BGP Product Support Page

RFCs

• RFC 1771 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
• RFC 1772 Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
• RFC 1773 Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
• RFC 1774 BGP-4 Protocol Analysis
• RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 1998 An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing
• RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
• RFC 2545 Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

MAEs, NAPs and Internet Exchanges

• Worldcom Metropolitan Area Exchange Home Page (Washington, San Jose, Dallas and others)
• Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX, but no longer just Palo Alto)
• Equinix operates a number of Internet Business Exchanges
• Ameritech Chicago NAP
• Los Angeles Access Point
• London Internet Exchange (LINX)
• Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
• Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX)
• Exchange Point Information
• European Internet Exchange Portal Euro-IX

IPv6 Links

IPv6 on the Web

• 6bone, the IPv6 testbed
• IPv6 Forum
• ipv6.org
• KAME Project (with the famous dancing turtle if you're IPv6-enabled)
• HS247 - IPv6 News & Links
• Search for IPv6 news at Google (often interesting stuff)
• Geoff Huston explains: How Did IPv6 Come About, Anyway?
• Cisco IOS IPv6
• Microsoft Research IPv6 (with links elsewhere within MS)

Main IPv6 RFCs

• RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 3513 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 2374 An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
• RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2461 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 3041 Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6

IETF IPv6 Working Groups

• IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6)
• Additional ipv6 wg page
• Site Multihoming in IPv6 (multi6)
• IPv6 Operations (v6ops)