Is BGP Safe Yet?

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by londons_explore on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:44PM (#22902787)

Nothing stops you hooking up a regular PC to do route validation and run the BGP protocol and stuff, and load validated routes into any router you choose.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by bifrost on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:51PM (#22902863)

There are lots of things stopping that...

The first namely being that nobody is going to do that unless they have too much time on their hands and don't actually run a real network. "Just loading routes" into a router is not really that straightforward.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by az656 on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:55AM (#22914928)

A lot of people, including very large companies are doing this in production. Using a route reflector/route server isn’t new, and it is very common.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by bifrost on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:01PM (#22926530)

Doing it right is not easy, and most people don't do it correctly nor do they know how to make it work all the time.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by londons_explore on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:42PM (#22908903)

Isn't that the entire idea behind the "software defined networking" craze?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? by bifrost on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:00PM (#22926522)

There's certainly an aspect to that, but generally no.

[ Parent | on HN ]