BGP:Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers v3.2

In this comprehensive course, you will gain in-depth knowledge of BGP, the routing protocol that is one of the underlying foundations of the Internet.

Course Outline

Learn to optimally deploy BGP in your network.

In this comprehensive course, you will gain in-depth knowledge of BGP, the routing protocol that is one of the underlying foundations of the Internet. You will explore the theory of BGP, configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers, and detailed troubleshooting information.

Our enhanced hands-on labs provide you with the skills needed to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in both enterprise and service provider environments. You'll also learn BGP network design issues and usage rules for various features as well as how to design and implement efficient, optimal, and trouble-free BGP networks.

What You'll Learn

• Implement the correct BGP configuration to allow your network to act as an ISP
• Configure BGP with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems
• Configure a provider network to behave as a transit autonomous system (AS)
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable inter-domain routing in a network scenario with multiple domains
• Use BGP policy controls to influence the route selection process with minimal impact on BGP route processing in a network scenario where you must support connections to multiple ISPs
• Configure BGP to connect the customer network to the Internet when multiple connections must be implemented
• Enable route reflection and confederations as possible solutions to BGP scaling issues
• Optimize the scalability of the BGP routing protocol in a typical network

Who Needs to Attend

• Internet Service Providers
• Networking professionals who need to connect to ISPs
• CCIP and CCIE certification candidates
• Otherindividuals who need to understand how to configure Cisco routers for the BGP protocol

Course Outline

1. BGP Overview

• Session Establishment
• Path Attributes
• Route Processing
• Basic Configuration
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting

2. BGP Transit Autonomous Systems

• Working with a Transit AS
• Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in a Transit AS
• Forwarding Packets in a Transit AS
• Configuring a Transit AS
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in a Transit AS

3. Route Selection Using Policy Controls

• Multihomed BGP Networks
• Employing AS Path Filters
• Filtering with Prefix Lists
• Outbound Route Filtering
• Applying Route Maps as BGP Filters
• Implementing Changes in BGP Policy

4. Route Selection Using Attributes

• BGP Route Selection with Weights
• BGP Local Preference
• AS-Path Prepending
• BGP Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED)
• Addressing BGP Communities

5. Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP

• Customer-to-Provider Connectivity Requirements
• Implementing Customer Connectivity Using Static Routes
• Connecting a Multihomed Customer to Single or Mulitple Service Providers

6. Scaling Service Provider Networks

• Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
• Designing Networks and Route Reflectors
• Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
• Configuring and Monitoring Confederations

7. Optimizing BGP Scalability

• Improving BGP Convergence
• Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
• Implementing BGP Peer Groups
• BGP Route Dampening

Labs

Lab 1: Network Setup

• Establish physical connectivity between routers
• Configure IP addressing
• Enable an Interior Routing Protocol
• Verify routing

Lab 2: Configuring EBGP Peerings

• Create two EBGP peerings
• Advertise networks into BGP
• Redistribute your IGP into BGP
• Examine the effects of BGP auto-summarization
• Summarize routes to your neighbor

Lab 3: Configuring IBGP Peerings

• Configure an IBGP peering with another edge router
• Peering with loopback interfaces
• Examine effect of BGP synchronization
• Discover BGP next-hop behavior
• Examine the effects of multihoming on path selection

Lab 4: Using AS-Path Filters and Regular Expressions

• Filter updates to external routers
• Manipulate path selection using AS-path filters and regular expressions

Lab 5: Using Prefix Lists

• Filter advertised AS routes using prefix lists

Lab 6: Soft Reconfiguration and Route Refresh

• Monitor and verify the actions of BGP Route Refresh
• Configure BGP soft inbound reconfiguration

Lab 7: Configuring the Weight Attribute

• Configure a second BGP peering for each router
• Set a weight value for routes received from each EBGP neighbor
• Monitor the resulting path choice

Lab 8: Configuring the Local Preference Attribute

• Use the Local Preference attribute to control BGP path selection

Lab 9: AS-Path Prepending

• Configure AS-Path Prepending to make one path into your AS look more attractive than the other

Lab 10: Configuring the Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED) Attribute

• Use the MED attribute to influence the BGP path selection by routers in neighboring systems

Lab 11: Using the Community Attribute

• Configure the community attribute in setting local preference BGP policies

Lab 12: Becoming a Service Provider

• Configure your AS as a service provider
• Configure full-mesh IBGP
• Determine appropriate filters for routing updates to and from your customer
• Configure and apply filters

Lab 13: Using Route Reflectors

• Configure a hierarchical route reflector structure
• Examine the effects of route reflectors on routing updates

Lab 14: Using Confederations

• Divide your AS into confederations
• Configure intra- and inter-confederation peerings
• Configure peering with external neighbors
• Examine the effects of confederation on routing updates

Lab 15: Monitoring and Tuning BGP Resource Use

• Examine the effects of BGP session establishment and route updates on router resources
• Examine how timers speed BGP convergence
• Set a maximum prefix value

Lab 16: Using Peer Groups

• Place neighboring BGP routers into peer groups
• Apply policy configuration to peer groups

Lab 17: Using Route Dampening

• Configure and apply route dampening to external peers
• Monitor the results when that peer's routes flap

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

- ICND2 - Interconnecting Cisco Network - ROUTE - Implementing Cisco IP Routing v1.0

Certificates offered

33 Cisco Learning Credits

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

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- do we get a certifiacate for completing the courseÉ - although the instructor did give us excercises to do I would have liked a few more - almost like a test, so that I made sure I retained and understood what was taught. I`m a learn to do by doing person and like the instrutor lead courses so I can have someone there to explain in my terms how things work. I`ll have to really use the online excercises to make sure Ì am confident when I need to do something in Excel.

Reviewed by Delores P. 2012

   

Should be time allocated for questions and answer

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The instructor was excellent as was the hands-on learning approach. The only thing I took issue with was the fact that there were a lot of bilingual persons taking the course and they tended to ask questions in French, during this English class. The instructor was trying very hard to explain everything in both languages, but I felt that these students should have requested a French-speaking classroom setting if they wanted to speak French.

Reviewed by Sheila D. 2012

   

Very professional. Facility clean and comfortable.

Reviewed by Christine P. 2012

   

For the cost of this course, a hard copy of the course handout should be provided as the classes follows the handout word for word.

Reviewed by Caroline P. 2012

   

The facilities at Global Knowledge were great. The Instructor was very knowlegable and made it easy to learn the material. It was a very good experience:)

Reviewed by Tonia L. 2012

   

Note: We had 2 different trainers during this 3 day course. Course: Terminology should reflect North America and be consistent with our business lingo.

Reviewed by Harman M. 2012

   

Found the course very informative. I had little exposure to Sharepoint and learned a number of things I didn't know. Plan to take the next level of training

Reviewed by Michael R. 2011

   

A charged mannul would be provided for students to make notes whereever they think instructions are important as reminders

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The course is so expensive to be payed by oneself. In almost all the others participants their companies pay the fee.

Reviewed by Ricardo T. 2011

   

No course books were provided for us to take.

Reviewed by Hala M. 2011

   

Course was very detailed but more time would be helpful during workshops. An additional day would help lessen the course load.

Reviewed by Roydon F. 2011

   

should have discuss some case studies,,overall A+

Reviewed by Syed A. 2011

   

Our instructor was very knowlegable and he provided excellent real life stories.

Reviewed by Stephen W. 2011

   

The course was very relevant. I was able to apply the knowledge I aquired in the course to my job on the very next day. The only complaint I have is with the temperature of the room. It was freezing! Students has to wear a jacket or sweater. We were told the temp gage was shared with another classroom that was quite warm so they had turned the temp very low causing our room to be very uncomfortable.

Reviewed by Yasmine I. 2011

   

Given the cost of the course, the hardcopy of the manual should have been provided. It would have been useful to make notes alongside the material as we went along.

Reviewed by Jeff P. 2011

   

I am very disappointed with the handouts. I was told I could go online and download a copy of the manual, the problem is that I would like the printed copy of the manual. I chatted online with one of your technitian who was unable to help me. Then I was told someone would contact me by phone to help me. That never happened. When taking a training course, a person EXPECTS to leave the course with ALL the material.

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Reviewed by Catherine G. 2011

   

Course content and labs were very good, everything worked as expected.

Reviewed by Francisco C. 2011

   

I really enjoyed this course and was surpised how ell everything was run...enjoyed the instructer very much (Par) and would like to take an other course with him. I wish we could have taken the work book home with us though!!!

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