The BGP Course will cover the topics below from theory, design, and hands-on lab perspectives. This is by far the most comprehensive and Expert-level BGP course in the world.
• BGP Basics – Why BGP, Autonomous Systems
• BGP Best Path Selection
• BGP Monitoring Protocol - BMP
• EBGP – Basics of EBGP
• EBGP Traffic Engineering – Inbound and Outbound
• GAO – Rexford Model – Inter-domain Policies for Business Economics
• EBGP Multipath, IBGP Multipath and EIBGP Multipath
• Inter-domain routing – Settlement Free Peering, Partial Peering, Remote Peering and IP Transit
• BGP Route Servers and the Looking Glasses
• ISP Tiers – Tier 1 , 2 , 3 Type Providers
• IBGP – Basics of IBGP
• BGP Route Reflectors
• Route Reflector Design Options
• Centralized vs. Distributed, Inline and Offline Route Reflector Design
• BGP Add-Path , BGP Shadow Route Reflectors/Distributing Diverse Paths and Shadow Sessions
• Unique RD per VRF per PE Approach for path distribution
• Comparison between BGP Add-path, Shadow RR, Shadow Sessions and Unique RD per VRF per PE
• BGP RT – Route Target Constraint
• BGP Optimal Route Reflection – ISP Case Study
• BGP Confederations and Confederation Design
• Full mesh IBGP vs. Route Reflector vs. Confederation
• Full mesh IBGP to BGP RR Migration
• BGP – IGP Interactions – Blackhole avoidance
• BGP – MPLS Interactions
• BGP LU – Labeled Unicast – RFC 3107 , RFC 8277
• BGP LS – BGP Link State
• BGP EPE – Egress Peer Engineering – Traditional EPE and Modern Egress Peer Engineering with EPE/SDN Controller
• BGP RTBH , Source and Destination based Remotely Triggered Blackholing and Scrubbing for DDOS mitigation with BGP
• BGP Flowspec – RFC 5575
• BGP Session Culling and Alternative Approaches , OXC
• BGP Graceful Restart, BGP Graceful Shutdown and BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication
• AIGP – Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP
• BGP MED vs. AIGP
• EBGP Default Route Propagation Behavior without Policies– RFC 8212
• BGP Information Security – 6 Different Types BGP Route Leaks
• 512K Incident Types 6 BGP Route Leak Contribution to it!
• BGP Information Security - Sub-Prefix Hijacking, Exact Prefix Hijacking , IP Squatting , Path-Shortening, Prefix Filters, IRR , RPSL , RPKI – Resource Public Key Infrastructure, PeeringDB, BGPSEC , Origin and Path Validation, AS-Cones , ASPA
• BGP in the Datacenter
• BGP in the Wide Area Networks
• Flat, Hierarchical and Generalized FIB Architecture and impact on BGP Prefix Independent Convergence
• BGP PIC – Prefix Independent Convergence , BGP PIC Core and BGP PIC Edge
• Case Studies
• BGP vs. IGP Comparison
• BGP in the CCIE , CCDE exam
• Summary
• BGP Quiz – BGP Questions and the Answers
• - Bonus - BGP vs. other Hyper Scale Datacenter Routing Protocol Comparisons : RIFT , Open Fabric and BGP SPF