Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers

Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers version 4.0 provides students with in-depth knowledge of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol that is one of the foundations of the Internet and New World technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). This curriculum covers the theory of BGP, configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers, detailed troubleshooting information, and hands-on exercises that provide learners with the skills that they need to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments. Different service solutions in the curriculum cover BGP network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features, preparing learners to design and implement efficient, optimal, and troublefree BGP networks.

 Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet the following objectives:

• 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

The course contains these components:

• 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
• 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
• Discovery 20: Configure BGP Route Dampening
• Challenge 1: Configure a Basic BGP Network
• Challenge 2: Configure a BGP Transit AS
• Challenge 3: Configure BGP Using BGP Filtering
• Challenge 4: Configure BGP Route Selection Using BGP Attributes
• Challenge 5: Configure BGP Route Reflectors