Reducing BGP Update Noise

Links to other resources relating to the project

Introduction to BGP on Wikipedia:
Border Gateway Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quagga and other BGP tools:
Quagga Software Routing Suite
MRT routing information export format
dpkt - Google Code: fast, simple packet creation / parsing
pybgpdump - Google Code: python library to easily analyze BGP mrt dumps
libbgpdump: C library designed to help with analyzing mrt dump files

BGP Tools, BGP Software, BGP Utilities (BGP, Border Gateway Protocol / Advanced Internet Routing)

Cisco resources:
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) - Cisco Systems
BGP Design and Implementation - Google Books

BGP RFCs:
RFC 4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC 4273 - Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4

RFC 3392 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC 4760 - Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
RFC 2918 - Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC 5291 - Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4
RFC 3107 - Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
RFC 4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
RFC 4893 - BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space

RFC 1997 - BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 1998 - An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing
RFC 3765 - NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control
RFC 4384 - BGP Communities for Data Collection
RFC 4360 - BGP Extended Communities Attribute

RFC 4456 - BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
RFC 5065 - Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
RFC 1863 - A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh routing
RFC 4223 - Reclassification of RFC 1863 to Historic

RFC 2439 - BGP Route Flap Damping

IANA reserved numbers for BGP:
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters
Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
Capability Codes
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Well-known Communities

IANA — Protocol Registries

Some of Geoff Huston's ISP columns:
ISP Column - August 2005 - Exploring Autonomous System Numbers
ISP Column - January 2007 - 32-bit AS Numbers – The View from the old BGP World
ISP Column - June 2007 - Damping BGP

Geoff Huston - potaroo.net

BGP log files and statistics:
The BGP Instability Report
The BGP IPv6 Instability Report

Quagga text logs at potaroo.net
Routeviews mrt dump archives

BGP security:
BGP Security & Routing Security

RFC 2385 - Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
RFC 3562 - Key Management Considerations for the TCP MD5 Signature Option
RFC 4278 - Standards Maturity Variance Regarding the TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) and the BGP-4 Specification
RFC 4107 - Guidelines for Cryptographic Key Management

Pretty Good BGP - autonomous security for autonomous systems

DV (Distance Vector) routing protocols without path-exploration:
RFC 3561 - Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing
DSDV - Highly Dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing for Mobile Computers

Paul Jakma's weblog containing his view about path-exploration:
Blog entry about path-exploration damping
Paul Jakma's Weblog : Weblog