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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

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Clemens Mosig

9 min read

BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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Measuring IP Connectivity with RIPE Atlas

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Branimir Petricevic

7 min read

One of the most important but often overlooked criteria when choosing a hosting provider is the performance of its network. Poor network performance for any kind of online service leads to low customer satisfaction. What is the best way to measure network performance that most accurately simulates …

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

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Rene Wilhelm

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Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?

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Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon

Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon

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Vesna Manojlovic

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While working from home during the global health crisis, we organised a virtual hackathon. The event lasted several weeks and aimed to measure and visualise the health of the Internet.

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The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

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Joao M. Ceron

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DNS operators have very few intelligent real-time tools that enable them to monitor their anycast services, for instance during a DDoS attack. In this post, we describe the challenges associated with measuring anycast services and propose a tool called the BGP Tuner. By using our open-source tool, …

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From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead

From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead

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Christian Teuschel

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RIPEstat will soon turn 10 years old, which I take as an opportunity to reflect on how RIPEstat came about, explain our new challenges and how we are tackling them.

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Easy BGP Monitoring with BGPalerter

Easy BGP Monitoring with BGPalerter

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Massimo Candela

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This is a brief tutorial that explains how to monitor BGP prefixes easily and effectively. For this purpose, we will use an open-source application named BGPalerter which is ready to go and requires almost no configuration. Currently, we use this solution at NTT, one of the largest global providers…

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Southeast Europe

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Suzanne Taylor

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We examine the Internet landscape in eight different countries in Southeast Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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Internet Usage Measurements in the Time of Corona

Internet Usage Measurements in the Time of Corona

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Vesna Manojlovic

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Many organisations are measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Internet performance: in this article, we look at four recent reports.

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Network Delays in Times of Corona

Network Delays in Times of Corona

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Romain Fontugne

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As part of the Internet health hackathon, we studied RIPE Atlas delay signals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what we found.

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