Course Name
BGP – Border Gateway Protocol Training
Course Overview
This course on BGP – Border Gateway Protocol training is designed for people who work on development, testing and verification of BGP protocol. Participants will learn the internals of BGP protocol that helps them with a much better understanding of their current BGP work.
Target Audience
- Professionals and Students who are working in Storage/Networking/IT Domain
- Developers, Testers/QA and Verification Engineers who are working on or keen to know Border Gateway Protocol
Fee, Schedule & Registration
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BGP – Border Gateway Protocol Training Course Outline
Introduction Definition of Commonly Used Terms Specification of Requirements |
Summary of Operation Routes: Advertisement and Storage Routing Information Base |
Message Formats Message Header Format OPEN Message Format UPDATE Message Format KEEPALIVE Message Format NOTIFICATION Message Format |
Path Attributes Path Attribute Usage – ORIGIN – AS_PATH – NEXT_HOP – MULTI_EXIT_DISC – LOCAL_PREF – ATOMIC_AGGREGATE – AGGREGATOR |
BGP Error Handling Message Header Error Handling OPEN Message Error Handling UPDATE Message Error Handling NOTIFICATION Message Error Handling Hold Timer Expired Error Handling Finite State Machine Error Handling Cease BGP Connection Collision Detection |
BGP Version Negotiation |
BGP Finite State Machine (FSM) Events for the BGP FSM – Optional Events Linked to Optional Session Attributes – Administrative Events – Timer Events – TCP Connection-Based Events – BGP Message-Based Events Description of FSM – FSM Definition – Terms “active” and “passive” – FSM and Collision Detection – FSM and Optional Session Attributes – FSM Event Numbers – FSM Actions that are Implementation Dependent – Finite State Machine |
UPDATE Message Handling Decision Process – Phase 1: Calculation of Degree of Preference – Phase 2: Route Selection – Route Resolvability Condition – Breaking Ties (Phase 2) – Phase 3: Route Dissemination – Overlapping Routes Update-Send Process – Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead – Frequency of Route Advertisement – Frequency of Route Origination – Efficient Organization of Routing Information – Information Reduction – Aggregating Routing Information Route Selection Criteria Originating BGP routes |
BGP Timers |