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Configuring Border Gateway Protocol on Cisco Routers (BGP)

Length 5 days
Version 4.1

Course overview

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Why study this course

The Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers training provides knowledge of BGP, the routing protocol and foundation for the Internet and new-world technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). It prepares you to design and implement efficient, optimal BGP networks covering the theory and configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers, detailed troubleshooting, and hands-on exercises.

Digital courseware: Cisco provides students with electronic courseware for this course. Students who have a confirmed booking will be sent an email prior to the course start date, with a link to create an account via learningspace.cisco.com before they attend their first day of class. Please note that any electronic courseware or labs will not be available (visible) until the first day of the class.

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What you’ll learn

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

Describe how to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable interdomain routing in a network scenario with multiple domains
Describe how to use BGP policy controls to influence the BGP route selection process in a network scenario in which you must support connections to multiple ISPs
Describe how to use BGP attributes to influence the route selection process in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections.
Describe how to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario in which multiple connections must be implemented
Describe how to 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 as possible solution to BGP scaling issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems.
Describe the available BGP tools and features to optimise the scalability of the BGP routing protocol in a typical BGP network

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Who is the course for?

Network administrators
Network engineers
Network managers
Systems engineers (who would like to implement BGP)

Course subjects

BGP Overview
BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
Route Selection Using Policy Controls
Route Selection Using Attributes
Customer to Provider Connectivity with BGP
Scaling Service Provider Networks
Optimising BGP Scalability

Lab Outline

Configure Basic BGP
Announcing Networks in BGP
Implement BGP TTL Security Check
BGP Route Propagation
IBGP Full Mesh
BGP Administrative Distance
Configure Non-Transit Autonomous System
Filtering Customer Prefixes
Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filtering
Configure Route Maps as BGP Filters
Configure Per-Neighbor Weights
Configure and Monitor Local Preference
Configure Local Preference Using Route Maps
Configure AS Path Prepending
Configure MED
Configure Local Preference Using the Communities
Configure Route Reflector
Configure BGP Route Limiting
Configure BGP Peer Groups

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS Software configuration
Configuring and troubleshooting RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS
Skills and knowledge equivalent to those learned in:

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Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.