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Adding BGP Prefix Length Statistics to BIRD Exporter

When you're running BGP full tables (like the ~220k IPv6 routes I receive), understanding prefix length distribution becomes interesting for network analysis. The question is simple: how many /48s, /32s, /44s am I actually receiving? The popular bird_exporter for Prometheus monitoring didn't support this out

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RPKI validation

BGP is built on trust, but as with everything else you can't trust people. I am not saying that BGP hijacks are only by malicious actors but it happens. And even if the hijack isn't malicious, you will be affected when an hijack occur. RPKI is

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The birth of AS215855

For quite some time, I had been thinking of getting my self an ASN and a IPv6 prefix. One of the questions that I got stuck at almost every time was; where do I even start? Finding a LIR Since my purpose is purely for personal use and as a

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