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BGP Routing Workshop

This workshop covers network infrastructure design principles. After completing this workshop, participants should be able to understand, implement, and configure BGP on ISP/IXP networks.

The course also includes considerable practical work based on various ISP/IXP scenarios and covers configurations, monitoring, and troubleshooting. BGP attributes are also covered in detail and the course further discusses aspects on BGP traffic engineering as well.

Who should attend?

 This workshop is targeted at engineers and network administrators from both ISPs and SOHO/enterprise networks.

Prerequisites

 It is assumed that participants have a good understanding of routing fundamentals.

Course length

 3 days

Content outline
  • ISP network topology overview
  • ISP IP Addressing Plan
  • Introduction of Internet routing infrastructure
  • 2 Byte and 4 Byte AS Numbers
  • BGP operation
  • Understanding BGP metric and path selection process
  • Configuring BGP within an AS [iBGP, route reflector]
  • Configuring BGP between ASes [eBGP]
  • Controlling routing update traffic [prefix list, distribute list, route map]
  • Route Summarization with BGP
  • BGP Traffic engineering [MED, Local Pref, AS-Path prepend]
It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers (At least Pentium 4, 1gb Ram, DVD drive, with administrative access to system) to practice the lessons learned during the workshops.
Contact Us

If you have any questions, please email training@apnic.net



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BGP Routing Workshop