BGP Route Analysis and Management Systems

TL;DR

This paper discusses challenges in managing BGP networks, reviews existing open source tools, and proposes features to improve automation and ease of BGP management tasks.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of BGP management problems, reviews current tools, and suggests new features for better automation and management.

Findings

Identification of key BGP management challenges

Review of open source BGP tools and methods

Proposed features to enhance BGP management automation

Abstract

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an important component in today's IP network infrastructure. As the main routing protocol of the Internet, clear understanding of its dynamics is crucial for configuring, diagnosing and debugging Internet routing problems. Despite the increase in the services that BGP provide such as MPLS VPNs, there is no much progress achieved in automating the BGP management tasks. In this paper we discuss some of the problems encountered by network engineers when managing BGP networks. We also describe some of the open source tools and methods that attempt to resolve these issues. Then we present some of the features that, if implemented, will ease BGP management related tasks.