Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP)

The BGP 4.0 course helps you develop critical hands-on skills to design, implement and troubleshoot BGP networks for optimal performance within service provider environments. To help you maximize t...

The BGP 4.0 course helps you develop critical hands-on skills to design, implement and troubleshoot BGP networks for optimal performance within service provider environments. To help you maximize the investment in your learning this course has been updated to include an extensive set of hands-on labs and also focuses on the Cisco IoS 15.2, enabling you to learn by doing on the latest technology.

The latest version of this instructor led training course contains a virtual lab model that allows each student to have their own pod and access the lab 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 90 days from the start of the course.

Following completion of this course, you will 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 route selection process in a network scenario where 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 connecti...

This course is at engineers within Service Providers and Enterprises acting as service providers who are involved in the design, implementation and troubleshooting of BGP networks.

BGP Overview


- Introducing BGP
- Understanding BGP Path Attributes
- Establishing BGP Sessions
- Processing BGP Routes
- Configuring Basic BGP
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP

BGP Transit Autonomous Systems


- Working with a Transit AS
- Interacting with IBGP and EBGP in a Transit AS
- Forwarding Packets in a Transit AS
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in a Transit AS

Route Selection using Policy Controls


- Using Multihomed BGP Networks
- Employing AS – Path Filters
- Filterin...