Tutorial: Interconnection, Automation, and Secure Routing Lab

Monday October 3rd, 9:00 - 18:00

Time	Title	Instructors	Presentation
9:00	Increased Security for Interconnection and Peering	Érika Vega	Presentation
		Guillermo Cicileo
	Interconnection, Automation and Secure Routing Lab	Santiago Aggio	Presentation
		Nicolás Antoniello

In this lab, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals and technical aspects of traffic exchange, peering and CDNs, the technologies that allow securing BGP with origin validation, and automation tools to facilitate the administration of equipment configuration.

Specific topics to be covered in this workshop include bilateral and multilateral peering, where to register peering sites and policies, and best practices for the use of BGP in peering. It will also provide an overview of the latest tools and best security-related practices in Internet routing security and how to monitor the proper operation of BGP announcements, using tools that help automate configurations for enabling RPKI and applying filters for attack mitigation. 

This will be a hands-on tutorial; virtual labs will be used. Participants are expected to have prior knowledge of how BGP works.

Among others, the tutorial will cover the following topics:

• Internet traffic, CDNs, Eyeballs Networks
• Private and public peering
• IXPs: characteristics, types of agreements, forms of interconnection
• An introduction to current Internet routing issues and ways to secure the BGP 
• RPKI: creation of ROAs, use, validation with the FORT validator
• IRR: route(6) equivalence with ROAs, AS-SET, examples of utilization
• Best practices for network operators and Internet Exchange Points; MANRS
• Automation: how to configure validators, ACLs and filters
• Monitoring BGP and RPKI announcements