Course Overview:
An advanced class on implementing BGP peering and routing policies with RS Routers, with emphasis on real-world applications and good design principles.
Students will receive detailed exposure and extensive hands-on exercises on the following:
 

• BGP Fundamentals
       Protocol Mechanics
       Message Types
       Finite State Machine
       Path Attributes
       Basic EBGP and IBGP Peer Configuration
• BGP Route Selection
       RIB and FIB Overview
       RS Route selection Process
• Routing Policies
       Global Routing Policies
       Aggregation and Redistribution
       Regular Expressions
       Route Maps
• Real-world Applications and Scenarios
       Multi-homing Considerations
       Multi-homing to the Same ISP
       Multi-homing to Different ISPs
• BGP Design Principles
       Peering and Filtering Best Current Practices
       Route Flap Damping
       Use of Communities
• Advanced Configuration Topics
       Memory Management
       Route Refresh
       BGP Graceful Restart
• IBGP Scalability
       Route Reflection
       Confederations
• Troubleshooting
       Tracing
       Common Problems

Course Prerequisites:
All students are expected to have completed the Riverstone Router & Architecture Configuration (RRAC) Course and have prior experience with routers and/or switch routers, as well as working knowledge of :
• The OSI reference model
• TCP/IP protocol stack
• IP routing and routing protocols
• LAN/WAN topologies
• VLANs