Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers
Course code
CI-BGP
Duration
5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
The BGP 4.0 course helps you develop critical hands-on skills to design, implement and troubleshoot BGP networks for optimal performance within service provider environments. To help you maximize the investment in your learning this course has been updated to include an extensive set of hands-on labs and also focuses on the Cisco IoS 15.2, enabling you to learn by doing on the latest technology.
The latest version of this instructor led training course contains a virtual lab model that allows each student to have their own pod and access the lab 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 90 days from the start of the course.
Objectives
Following completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how to configure, monitor and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable interdomain routing in a network scenario with multiple domains.
- Describe how to use BGP policy controls to influence the route selection process in a network scenario where you must support connections to multiple ISPs.
- Describe how to use BGP attributes to influence the route selection process in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections.
- Describe how to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario in which multiple connections must be implemented.
- Describe how to configure the service provider network to behave as a transit AS in a typical implementation with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems.
- Enable route reflection and confederations as possible solutions to BGP scaling issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems.
- Describe the available BGP tools and features to optimize the scalability of the BGP routing protocol in a typical BGP network
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills necessary before attending this course are:
- Completion of Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND1) or the Cisco CCNA®certification
- Completion of Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) or equivalent
Course Outline
Detailed Course Outline
BGP Overview
- Introducing BGP
- Understanding BGP Path Attributes
- Establishing BGP Sessions
- Processing BGP Routes
- Configuring Basic BGP
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP
BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
- Working with a Transit AS
- Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in a Transit AS
- Forwarding Packets in a Transit AS
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in a Transit AS
Route Selection using Policy Controls
- Using Multihomed BGP Networks
- Employing AS – Path Filters
- Filtering with Prefix-Lists
- Using Outbound Route Filtering
- Applying Route-Maps as BGP Filters
- Implementing Changes in BGP Policy
Route Selection Using Attributes
- Influencing BGP Route Selection with Weights
- Setting BGP Local Preference
- Using AS-Path Prepending
- Understanding the BGP Multi-Exit Discriminator
- Addressing BGP Communities
Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP
- Understanding Customer-to-Provider Connectivity Requirements
- Implementing Customer Connectivity Using Static Routing
- Connecting a Multihomed Customer to a Single Service Provider
- Connecting a Multihomed Customer to Multiple Service Providers
Scaling Service Provider Networks
- Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
- Introducing and Designing Route Reflectors
- Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
Optimizing BGP Scalability
- Improving BGP Convergence
- Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
- Implementing BGP Peer Groups
- Using BGP Route Dampening
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Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers
Course code:
CI-BGP
Duration:
5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours
