BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL (BGP)

Course Description:

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, and the most scalable of all routing protocols. BGP is the routing protocol of the global Internet, as well as for Service Provider private networks. BGP has expanded upon its original purpose of carrying Internet reachability information, and can now carry routes for Multicast, IPv6, VPNs, and a variety of other data.

Prerequisite Knowledge:

•  CCNP or equivalent level knowledge

Course Delivery Method:

This boot camp is delivered online through Webex.

Students Will Receive:

BGP E-Book

Boot Camp Hours:

Saturdays Only 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM (5 sessions ) US Central Time Zone

Follow On Certification:

Course Outline

Session One:

BGP IOS Foundations

• BGP Address-Familiy IPv4/IPv6
• 4 Byte AS Numbers
• Establishing a BGP session
• Establishing Neighbor Adjacency Using Different Methods
• Dynamic Peering, session-group, neighbor-group
• Hiding Local AS Number, Allow-AS
• Network advertisement, default route
• Administrative Distance
• Route-Refresh

Session Two:

BGP XR Foundations

• Basics of IOS-XR
• BGP on XR architecture
• BGP differences between IOS and XR
• Multi-instances
• BGP Address-Family IPv4/IPv6
• 4 Byte AS Numbers
• Establishing a BGP session
• Establishing Neighbor Adjacency Using Different Methods
• Dynamic Peering, session-group, neighbor-group
• Hiding Local AS Number, Allow-AS
• Network advertisement, default route
• Administrative Distance
• Route-Refresh

Session Three:

BGP Attributes

• AS_PATH
• NEXT_HOP
• AGGREGATOR
• ATOMIC_AGGREGATOR
• ORIGIN
• ORIGINATOR_ID
• WEIGHT
• LOCAL_PREF
• MED
• Best Path Algorithm
• BGP Automatic-Tag, and AS-Path tag & Table-map

Session Four:

BGP Traffic Engineering

• COMMUNITY
• EXT_COMM (Cost Community)
• Load Balancing, Load Sharing, dmzlink-bw
• Modifications to the Best Path algorithm
• BGP Route Policy in IOS
• BGP RPL in XR
  • Building policies
  • Actions
  • Parameters
• Selective and Conditional Advertisement and BGP Backdoors
• BGP ORR – Optimal Route Reflection
• Intra- and Inter-AS traffic engineering

Session Five:

BGP Scalability

• Confederations
• Route Reflectors
  • CLUSTER_ID, CLUSTER_LIST
  • Hierarchical RRs
• Persistent Routing Loop topology
• Route Oscillators in BGP
• BGP Filtering
• Selective FIB Download
• Route servers

BGP Performance – IOS/XR

• Tuning control-plane
• BGP Add-Path
• Route dampening
• BGP Convergence – IOS/XR
• Keepalive
• MRAI
• NHT
• BGP Best-External
• BGP PIC Core/Edge

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Retake Policy:
There are no free retakes for this track.

Refund/Cancellation Policy:
There are no refunds. You will be issued a credit. There is no expiration for the credit. You can take the class at a different date or location at no additional cost. We need a minimum of two weeks notice for postponing the class.