Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

• 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
• Use BGP attributes to influence the route selection process in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections
• Implement the correct BGP configuration to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections
• Enable the provider network to behave as a transit autonomous system in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems
• Identify common BGP scaling issues and enable route reflection and confederations as possible solutions to these issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems

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

Target Audience

• Channel Partners
• Customers
• Employees

Prerequisites

The completion of:

• Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND1);
• Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA);
• Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) or equivalent.