CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure · BGP

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  • 5 stages
  • 24 lessons written
  • 5 hr 20 min total

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  1. Stage 1: Foundations & Core BGP

    What BGP is, how a session forms, how prefixes enter the table, and how the next hop is resolved.

    • 5 chapters
    • 7 lessons
    • 0 labs
    • 1 hr 27 min
    1. 01 BGP Foundations 2 lessons
    2. 02 Neighbor Sessions and the FSM 2 lessons
    3. 03 Advertising Routes into BGP 1 lesson
    4. 04 The BGP Table 1 lesson
    5. 05 Next-Hop Behavior and Recursion 1 lesson
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  2. Stage 2: Attributes, Path Selection & Policy

    The attributes BGP carries, the algorithm that picks one path, and the policy tools that bend the outcome.

    • 4 chapters
    • 5 lessons
    • 0 labs
    • 1 hr 9 min
    1. 06 Path Attributes 1 lesson
    2. 07 Best-Path Selection 2 lessons
    3. 08 Routing Policy and Filtering 1 lesson
    4. 09 Communities 1 lesson
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  3. Stage 3: Scaling & Architecture

    Summarising the table, shaping the AS path, and the two ways BGP escapes the iBGP full mesh.

    • 5 chapters
    • 5 lessons
    • 0 labs
    • 1 hr 6 min
    1. 10 Route Aggregation 1 lesson
    2. 11 AS-Path Manipulation and Regular Expressions 1 lesson
    3. 12 Route Reflection 1 lesson
    4. 13 Confederations 1 lesson
    5. 14 Multipath and Load Sharing 1 lesson
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  4. Stage 4: Advanced BGP

    Carrying more than IPv4, failing over faster than the default timers, and keeping the protocol from being abused.

    • 3 chapters
    • 3 lessons
    • 0 labs
    • 41 min
    1. 15 Address Families and MP-BGP 1 lesson
    2. 16 Convergence and High Availability 1 lesson
    3. 17 BGP Security 1 lesson
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  5. Stage 5: Design, Services & Troubleshooting

    Putting BGP to work at the Internet edge, as the control plane of an L3VPN and an overlay, and repairing it in order when it breaks.

    • 4 chapters
    • 4 lessons
    • 0 labs
    • 57 min
    1. 18 Internet Edge Design 1 lesson
    2. 19 BGP with MPLS L3VPN 1 lesson
    3. 20 BGP in Overlays 1 lesson
    4. 21 Troubleshooting 1 lesson
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