When Route Reflectors Lie: Real-World BGP Divergence and the Habits That Cause It
A deep dive into a hidden RR cluster split, how consistency tooling changes the story, and the cultural anti-patterns that quietly invite inconsistent network state.
Why manual changes and ad-hoc scripts are no match for the financial, operational, and human cost of modern network failures, and how to build a software-centric automation strategy instead.
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