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BGP

Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers

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This course provides students with in-depth knowledge of BGP, the routing protocol that is one of the underlying foundations of the Internet and new-world technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). This curriculum covers the theory of BGP, configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers, detailed troubleshooting information and hands-on exercises that provide students with the skills needed to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments. Different service solutions in the curriculum cover BGP network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features preparing students to design and implement efficient, optimal and trouble free BGP networks.

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable inter-domain 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
  • Implement the correct BGP configuration to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections
  • Enable the provider network to behave as a transit autonomous system in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems
  • Identify common BGP scaling issues and enable route reflection and confederations as possible solutions to these issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems

Course Contents

Module 1: BGP Overview

  • Module 2: BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
  • Module 3: Route Selection Using Policy Controls
  • Module 4: Route Selection Using Attributes
  • Module 5: Customer to Provider Connectivity with BGP
  • Module 6: Scaling Service Provider Networks
  • Module 7: Optimizing BGP Scalability

E-Book Symbol You will receive the original course documentation from Cisco in English language as a Cisco E-Book. In the Cisco Digital Learning Version, the content of the courseware is integrated into the learning interface instead.

Target Group

The course is aimed at network administrators, managers, designers and system engineers who are involved in the implementation of BGP. Participation is recommended as preparation for the BGP exam.

Knowledge Prerequisites

Completion of Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND1) or Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) Completion of Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) or equivalent

Course Introduction
 
Module 1: BGP Overview
Lesson 1: Introducing BGP
Lesson 2: Understanding BGP Path Attributes
Lesson 3: Establishing BGP Sessions
Lesson 4: Processing BGP Routes
Lesson 5: Configuring Basic BGP
Lesson 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP
Challenge 1: Configure a Basic BGP Network
Lesson 7: Module Summary
Lesson 8: Module Self-Check
 
Module 2: BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
Lesson 1: Working with Transit AS
Lesson 2: Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in Transit AS
Lesson 3: Forwarding Packets in Transit AS
Lesson 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in Transit AS
Challenge 2: Configure a BGP Transit AS
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check
 
Module 3: Route Selection Using Policy Controls
Lesson 1: Using Multihomed BGP Networks
Lesson 2: Employing AS Path Filters
Lesson 3: Filtering with Prefix Lists
Lesson 4: Using Outbound Route Filtering
Lesson 5: Applying Route Maps as BGP Filters
Lesson 6: Implementing Changes in BGP Policy
Challenge 3: Configure BGP Using BGP Filtering
Lesson 7: Module Summary
Lesson 8: Module Self-Check
 
Module 4: Route Selection Using Attributes
Lesson 1: Influencing BGP Route Selection with Weights
Lesson 2: Setting BGP Local Preference
Lesson 3: Using AS Path Prepending
Lesson 4: Understanding BGP Multi-Exit Discriminators
Lesson 5: Addressing BGP Communities
Challenge 4: Configure BGP Route Selection Using BGP Attributes
Lesson 6: Module Summary
Lesson 7: Module Self-Check
 
Module 5: Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP
Lesson 1: Understanding Customer-to-Provider Connectivity Requirements
Lesson 2: Implementing Customer Connectivity Using Static Routing
Lesson 3: Connecting a Customer to a Single Service Provider
Lesson 4: Connecting a Multihomed Customer to Multiple Service Providers
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check
 
Module 6: Scaling Service Provider Networks
Lesson 1: Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
Lesson 2: Introducing and Designing Route Reflectors
Lesson 3: Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
Challenge 5: Configure BGP Route Reflectors
Lesson 4: Module Summary
Lesson 5: Module Self-Check
 
Module 7: Optimizing BGP Scalability
Lesson 1: Improving BGP Convergence
Lesson 2: Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
Lesson 3: Implementing BGP Peer Groups
Lesson 4: Using BGP Route Dampening
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check

Classroom training

Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!

Hybrid training

Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.

Online training

You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.

Cisco Digital Learning

This course is available in the Cisco Digital Learning Library. These recently developed, multi-modal training events include HD videos moderated by lecturers with stored searchable text and subtitles, as well as a exercises, labs, and explanatory text and graphics. We provide this offer to you via our myExperTeach learning portal. Effective of the activation of the account, access to the courses will be granted for a duration of 6 months. In the case of packet solutions (Cisco Digital Learning Subscriptions), this time period will amount to 12 months.

Tailor-made courses

You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses
PDF SymbolYou can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.

This course provides students with in-depth knowledge of BGP, the routing protocol that is one of the underlying foundations of the Internet and new-world technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). This curriculum covers the theory of BGP, configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers, detailed troubleshooting information and hands-on exercises that provide students with the skills needed to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments. Different service solutions in the curriculum cover BGP network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features preparing students to design and implement efficient, optimal and trouble free BGP networks.

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable inter-domain 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
  • Implement the correct BGP configuration to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections
  • Enable the provider network to behave as a transit autonomous system in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems
  • Identify common BGP scaling issues and enable route reflection and confederations as possible solutions to these issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems

Course Contents

Module 1: BGP Overview

  • Module 2: BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
  • Module 3: Route Selection Using Policy Controls
  • Module 4: Route Selection Using Attributes
  • Module 5: Customer to Provider Connectivity with BGP
  • Module 6: Scaling Service Provider Networks
  • Module 7: Optimizing BGP Scalability

E-Book Symbol You will receive the original course documentation from Cisco in English language as a Cisco E-Book. In the Cisco Digital Learning Version, the content of the courseware is integrated into the learning interface instead.

Target Group

The course is aimed at network administrators, managers, designers and system engineers who are involved in the implementation of BGP. Participation is recommended as preparation for the BGP exam.

Knowledge Prerequisites

Completion of Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND1) or Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) Completion of Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) or equivalent

Course Introduction
 
Module 1: BGP Overview
Lesson 1: Introducing BGP
Lesson 2: Understanding BGP Path Attributes
Lesson 3: Establishing BGP Sessions
Lesson 4: Processing BGP Routes
Lesson 5: Configuring Basic BGP
Lesson 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP
Challenge 1: Configure a Basic BGP Network
Lesson 7: Module Summary
Lesson 8: Module Self-Check
 
Module 2: BGP Transit Autonomous Systems
Lesson 1: Working with Transit AS
Lesson 2: Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in Transit AS
Lesson 3: Forwarding Packets in Transit AS
Lesson 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in Transit AS
Challenge 2: Configure a BGP Transit AS
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check
 
Module 3: Route Selection Using Policy Controls
Lesson 1: Using Multihomed BGP Networks
Lesson 2: Employing AS Path Filters
Lesson 3: Filtering with Prefix Lists
Lesson 4: Using Outbound Route Filtering
Lesson 5: Applying Route Maps as BGP Filters
Lesson 6: Implementing Changes in BGP Policy
Challenge 3: Configure BGP Using BGP Filtering
Lesson 7: Module Summary
Lesson 8: Module Self-Check
 
Module 4: Route Selection Using Attributes
Lesson 1: Influencing BGP Route Selection with Weights
Lesson 2: Setting BGP Local Preference
Lesson 3: Using AS Path Prepending
Lesson 4: Understanding BGP Multi-Exit Discriminators
Lesson 5: Addressing BGP Communities
Challenge 4: Configure BGP Route Selection Using BGP Attributes
Lesson 6: Module Summary
Lesson 7: Module Self-Check
 
Module 5: Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP
Lesson 1: Understanding Customer-to-Provider Connectivity Requirements
Lesson 2: Implementing Customer Connectivity Using Static Routing
Lesson 3: Connecting a Customer to a Single Service Provider
Lesson 4: Connecting a Multihomed Customer to Multiple Service Providers
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check
 
Module 6: Scaling Service Provider Networks
Lesson 1: Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
Lesson 2: Introducing and Designing Route Reflectors
Lesson 3: Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
Challenge 5: Configure BGP Route Reflectors
Lesson 4: Module Summary
Lesson 5: Module Self-Check
 
Module 7: Optimizing BGP Scalability
Lesson 1: Improving BGP Convergence
Lesson 2: Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
Lesson 3: Implementing BGP Peer Groups
Lesson 4: Using BGP Route Dampening
Lesson 5: Module Summary
Lesson 6: Module Self-Check

Classroom training

Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!

Hybrid training

Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.

Online training

You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.

Cisco Digital Learning

This course is available in the Cisco Digital Learning Library. These recently developed, multi-modal training events include HD videos moderated by lecturers with stored searchable text and subtitles, as well as a exercises, labs, and explanatory text and graphics. We provide this offer to you via our myExperTeach learning portal. Effective of the activation of the account, access to the courses will be granted for a duration of 6 months. In the case of packet solutions (Cisco Digital Learning Subscriptions), this time period will amount to 12 months.

Tailor-made courses

You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses

PDF SymbolYou can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.