BGP - Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers V4.0

Course Description 

The Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers training teaches the underlying foundations of the Internet and new-world technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). It prepares students to design and implement efficient, optimal, and trouble-free BGP networks covering:

The theory of BGP and configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers
Detailed troubleshooting information and hands-on exercises that provide students with the skills needed to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments
BGP network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features

Who Should Enroll

Network administrators
Network engineers
Network managers
Systems engineers (who would like to implement BGP)

Course Objectives

Upon 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 BGP route selection process in a network scenario in which 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 as possible solution 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

Course Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS Software configuration
Configuring and troubleshooting RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS
Skills and knowledge equivalent to those learned in:
Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
Implementing Cisco Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI)
Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Core Technologies (SPCOR)

Course Outline

Module 1: BGP Overview
Module 2: BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
Module 3: Route Selection Using Policy Controls
Module 4: Route Selection Using Attributes
Module 5: Customer to Provider Connectivity with BGP
Module 6: Scaling Service Provider Networks
Module 7: Optimizing BGP Scalability

Lab Outline

Discovery 1: Configure Basic BGP
Discovery 2: Announcing Networks in BGP
Discovery 3: Implement BGP TTL Security Check
Discovery 4: BGP Route Propagation
Discovery 5: IBGP Full Mesh
Discovery 6: BGP Administrative Distance
Discovery 7: Configure Non-Transit Autonomous System
Discovery 8: Filtering Customer Prefixes
Discovery 9: Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filtering
Discovery 10: Configure Route Maps as BGP Filters
Discovery 11: Configure Per-Neighbor Weights
Discovery 12: Configure and Monitor Local Preference
Discovery 13: Configure Local Preference Using Route Maps
Discovery 14: Configure AS Path Prepending
Discovery 15: Configure MED
Discovery 16: Configure Local Preference Using the Communities
Discovery 17: Configure Route Reflector
Discovery 18: Configure BGP Route Limiting
Discovery 19: Configure BGP Peer Groups