I joined Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray on Heavy Networking to talk about the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP): how service providers use it in real life, and what the architecture behind it looks like.

We covered how I collect the data, why capturing routes both pre- and post-policy matters, how to …

With the automation around configuration generation and deployment already in place. It was the desire to present back to the customer that the BGP prefixes configured to be advertised were arrived as such. Though not only that, but also accepted through the policy.

I will take you on the journey …

What building cars can teach us about building software and BMP

In the late 19th century, two industrial titans were born within a few months of each other but an ocean apart. Both of these men, Henry Royce and Henry Ford, were obsessed with precision engineering and, fortunately for many of us, …

The BGP Monitoring Protocol, or BMP, is an IETF standard. With BMP you can send BGP prefixes and updates from a router to a collector before any policy filters are applied. Once collected, you can analyze this routing data without any impact on the router itself. On today’s Heavy Networking, …