This course is designed for:

• Pre- and postsales technical engineers who are responsible for designing, implementing, or troubleshooting BGP networks
• Personnel who perform other network job functions, such as network performance or design, in a BGP networking environment
• Candidates seeking professional-level certification, including Cisco CCIP or CCIE status

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable interdomain 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
• Complete the correct BGP configuration to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario in which multiple connections must be implemented
• 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 and confederations as possible solutions to BGP scaling issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems
• Use available BGP tools and features to optimize the scalability of the BGP routing protocol in a typical BGP network

BGP Overview

• Introducing BGP
• Understanding BGP Path Attributes
• Establishing BGP Sessions
• Processing BGP Routes
• Configuring Basic BGP
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP

BGP Transit Autonomous Systems

• Working with a Transit AS
• Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in a Transit AS
• Forwarding Packets in a Transit AS
• Configuring a Transit AS
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in a Transit AS

Route Selection Using Policy Controls

• Using Multihomed BGP Networks
• Employing AS-Path Filters
• Filtering with Prefix-Lists
• Using Outbound Route Filtering
• Applying Route-Maps as BGP Filters
• Implementing Changes in BGP Policy

Route Selection Using Attributes

• Influencing BGP Route Selection with Weights
• Setting BGP Local Preference
• Using AS-Path Prepending
• Understanding BGP Multi-Exit Discriminators
• Addressing BGP Communities

Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP

• Understanding Customer-to-Provider Connectivity Requirements
• Implementing Customer Connectivity Using Static Routing
• Connecting a Multihomed Customer to a Single Service Provider
• Connecting a Multihomed Customer to Multiple Service Providers

Scaling Service Provider Networks

• Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
• Introducing Route Reflectors
• Designing Networks with Route Reflectors
• Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
• Introducing Confederations
• Configuring and Monitoring Confederations

Optimizing BGP Scalability

• Improving BGP Convergence
• Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
• Implementing BGP Peer Groups
• Using BGP Route Dampening

• Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS)
• Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS)

All the above courses are part of the Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) Certification