“BGP for Enterprsie WAN & Internet Edge” guides the students through BGP routing technology and its specifics. Taking this course, students will be able to understand BGP applications, configuration, and troubleshooting. Course will help in designing redundant Enterprise class Internet Edge and WAN solution.

BGP for Enterprise WAN & Internet Edge training agenda:

1) About the course

• Course organization
• Theory and Hands on labs approach
• 17 main LAB topics

2) BGP Overview

• BGP protocol
• Applications – Service Provider, Enterprise environments
• Architecture – Autonomous System, BGP Policy Engines
• iBGP and eBGP comparison and behavior, timers
• Control Plane and Forwarding Plane
• The BGP RIP, IP RIB, FIB roles
• BGP Attributes
• Path decision process
• BGP session establishment and capabilities (MP-BGP)

3) Lab Topology overview

• Physical and logical topology description

4) Basic topology setup – Day 1 Labs

• LAB1: Sites addressing, interfaces setup
• LAB2: BGP basic configuration and session establishment
• LAB3: Prefix exchange, IP RIB, BGP RIB, FIB
• LAB4: BGP Attributes review, Next Hop verification

5) Policy control techniques

• Policy control usage – Filter lists
• Prefix lists
• LAB 5: Prefix list configuration
• AS_PATH lists
• LAB 6: AS_PATH list configuration
• Community lists
• LAB 7: AS_PATH list configuration
• Route Maps
• LAB 8: Route Maps configuration
• Policy Lists
• LAB 9: Policy lists configuration
• BGP filtering process order
• LAB 10: Scenario 1 – basic outbound and inbound filtering task

6) BGP – IGP interaction

• Need for IGP and BGP exchange
• redistribute and network commands behavior
• LAB 11: Configuring basic OSPF and route redistribution between processes

7) BGP in Enterprise Internet Edge

• Internet connectivity in Enterprise, why BGP?
• Default or Full Feed, memory estimation
• Multihoming
• Stub Multihoming single and multiple Border Routers
• Standard Multihoming
• LAB 12: Multihomed network setup
• Inbound filtering best practice
• Outbound filtering best practice
• LAB 13: Filtering in Multihomed Network
• Load Balancing
• LAB 14: Load Balancing configuration
• eBGP Multihop solution
• LAB 15: Multhihop session configuration
• Securing BGP sessions
• LAB 16: Session security session configuration
• LAB 17: BGP on the edge troubleshooting and task solving

8) Q&A and course summary

• BGP Q&A session
• Course summary