Border Gateway Protocol: Concepts and Implementation

Internet2 Technology Exchange

Monday, December 9 - 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Boston, MA

Organizers

University of South Carolina (USC)
Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC)

Overview

This workshop provides hands-on experience on advanced topics in networking. It will focus on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is the de facto standard inter-AS routing protocol in today’s Internet. As such, it is a critical protocol for the Internet—in essence, it is the protocol that glues the whole thing together

Outcomes

By the end of this tutorial, attendees will:

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP):

Describe the operation of EBGP and IBGP sessions with different attributes
Understand Local Preference and MED attributes

Intended Audience

The tutorial is targeted to IT educators and professionals such as system administrators, network engineers, practitioners. The content is suitable for instructors who want to incorporate advanced material into their networking classes. The content is available for NETLAB systems.

Pre-requisites

Attendees are expected to know basic networking (IPv4, local area networks, OSI model). Training activities will be conducted using a virtual platform. Attendees will be provided with a username and a password.

Agenda

Monday, December 9

Time	Topic	Presenter
08:00 - 08:30	BGP and Research and Education Networks (RENs) [PPT, PDF]	Corey Eichelberger, Hans Addleman
08:30 - 09:30	Hands-on Session 1: Essentials of BGP, EBGP, IBGP [PPT, PDF]	Jose Gomez, Ali Alsabeh
09:30 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 10:30	Brief overview of Local Preference and MED Attributes [PPT, PDF]	Corey Eichelberger, Hans Addleman
10:30 - 11:20	Hands-on Session 2: Local Preference and MED attributes [PPT, PDF]	Ali Alsabeh, Jose Gomez
11:20 - 11:30	Summary
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Resources

Item	Description
BGP VM [Link]	Download the virtual machine used for the BGP labs.
Lab Manuals [Link]	This link contains the lab manuals.

Border Gateway Protocol: Concepts and Implementation