I was doing some research on how datacenter networks are designed, as I had a rough idea on what the various terminologies meant, but didn’t have a solid grasp on how they all fit together. I ran across this article and it neatly explains the progression from big flaky layer 2 networks, to EVPN steered […]
A quick history of BGP
The first RFC describing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), RFC 1105, was published in June 1989, thirty years ago. By any metric that makes BGP a venerable protocol in the Internet context and considering that it holds the Internet together it’s still a central piece of the Internet’s infrastructure.” https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/10/happy-birthday-bgp/ Read the rest here: https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/10/happy-birthday-bgp/