Advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Course Description
This short course will provide students with extensive hands on exercises focusing on configuring advanced BGP features on Cisco routers. In every session, brief theoretical lectures will be provided however it is expected that the students have solid Cisco backgrounds. Every student will then have access to his own sets of routers to build his network according to various scenarios.

Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe characteristics of BGP and the tools to filter routes and influence route selection in BGP
• Describe BGP synchronization and its relationship to different interior routing protocols.
• Describe the operation and configuration of transit autonomous systems in a sample Service Provider networks
• Configure BGP in transit autonomous systems
• Configure Scalability features combined with BGP Route Reflectors and BGP Confederations
• Describe advanced BGP configuration attributes, including Local Preference, Multi-Exit Discriminator and BGP Communities
  

Lab Examples

• Basic BGP configuration
• BGP Synchronization
• BGP Route filtering and route selection
• BGP Route Reflector and Confederation
• Configure BGP in a transit autonomous system
• Configure BGP in Multi-home environment
• Advanced BGP features

Course Prerequisites
CCNP certification with basic BGP knowledge.