BGP Training Courses::BGP Courses and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Training Classes

Why this BGP course?

This in depth and up-to-date training course will give you a thorough grounding in this complex routing protocol. Following the completion of this course you will be able to install, configure and maintain BGP with confidence thus ensuring the effective exchange of data across reliable and robust networks.

Learn BGP in depth.
Comprehensive lecture sessions.
Hands-on practical BGP labs.
Hands-on configuring BGP on Cisco routers.
Configure BGP on Juniper routers.

BGP Training Course Objectives

On completing this course, you will be able to:

Successfully install and deploy Border Gateway Protocol to exploit internetworking to the full.
Optimise address management through developing aggregate routes with Classless Interdomain Routing.
Get to grips with BGP path manipulation and subnetting to ensure fast and reliable data exchange.
Obtain peak performance within your local and distributed networks through exploiting BGP metrics, attributes and components.
Synchronise OSPF and BGP to accommodate multiple routing networks and boost router resources.
Troubleshoot network oscillations and routing faults on your BGP network.

Who should attend this BGP course

This course will be of value to all professionals who are responsible for configuring, administering and troubleshooting a BGP network. It will also provide the advanced skills necessary for the future implementation of BGP or the migration to BGP across an autonomous system.

BGP Course Pre-requisites

Attendance on course 362: Interconnecting Cisco Internetwork Devices and course 366: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks.

Lifetime Post-Course Support

After completing this BGP training course, delegates receive lifetime post-training support from LEVER Technology Group PLC, to help them apply the technologies and skills they have learned with us, to provide career-long support, and to ensure they are better equipped for their future roles in IT and networking.

BGPTraining Course Content

The fundamentals of BGP sessions

BGP in a nutshell
Attributes of BGP and interdomain routing between autonomous systems
Next hop, local preferences, multi-exit discriminator (MED), origin and aggregate
AS Path attributes, notification message packets and error codes
Implementing BGP - when to use it
BGP on transit systems
BGP on multi homed and dual homed networks
BGP Packet Formats and fields; components and functions
Header formats and message formats
Open and update message fields and packets
Authentication data and variable length field

BGP routing procedures with TCP/IP

Peer routers and port 179
Exchanging network reachability information
Observing changes in routing tables and updates
Applying routing policies
Manipulating routing behaviour
eBGP & iBGP across ASs
Differences and similarities
How they interact
AS routing via IGPs & iBGP

Manipulating address management and route mapping

Supernetting with Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR)
Selecting addresses with CIDR
Generating routes with aggregation
The functions of aggregate commands; summary-only, as-set and suppress-map/attribute map
Understanding route maps
Map tags, sequence numbers; permit and deny commands
Using match and set commands
Matching criteria and setting action
Related commands

Using BGP for best path selection

Examining AS path attribute
Finding sources - origin attribute
Examining nexthop attribute
Multiaccess networks
Non-broadcast networks (NBMA)
The Network command
Subnetting and supernetting
Advertising BGP routes
Routing Information Bases (RIB)
Choosing preferred route - BGP backdoor & distance
Metrics for pathway manipulation
Best path forward with weight attribute
Pathways with local preference, Community and metric attribute - (MED)
BGP Synchronisation
Disabling synchronisation

Establishing BGP connections with neighbour commands

Defining BGP neighbours
Exchanging AS values with open messages
Pinging routers to check connectivity
Using loopback interface with neighbour command
Increasing route flow between BGP with loopback
Allowing external connectivity through eBGP multihop
Load Balancing with neighbour eBGP multihop and neighbour update-source commands

Filtering with BGP

Filtering with access lists
Receiving updates between neighbours
AS path filtering
Establishing path information with AS regular expressions
Components of the regular expression and their functions
Examining community filtering
The functions of community commands and attributes
Configuring filter lists for peer groups

The interaction of BGP and IGPs (OSPF and RIP)

Advantages of independant multiple routing networks
The operation of "ships in the night"
Gaining additional router resources
Filtering your IGP into BGP using redistribution some dos and don’ts
Examining various methods of generating routes from your autonomous system
Securing loop free interdomain routing
Advertising new origins with network command

Alleviating fully meshed BGP with BGP confederation and Route Reflectors

Diluting iBGP mesh with BGP confederation exchange routing through eBGP peers
Configuring BGP confederation peers
iBGP peering in AS with Route Reflectors (RR)
Configuration, components and commands
Identifying routing data with Route Reflectors and cluster lists

Monitoring and troubleshooting BGP

Examining BGP Route dampening
Alleviate oscillations and route flapping on a network
Identify badly defined routes
Penalties with BGP dampening
Route dampening commands and default parameters

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) — a 3-day training course

An advanced training course covering Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration and deployment across autonomous systems and multi-layered networks