Tag: bgp
BGP Confederations
Scenario: You are the senior network engineer working for the federation of planets. BGP was developed on earth but is heavily used between planets as well. The network is expected to grow and to make you don’t go…
Read More »BGP Route Reflectors and Clusters
Scenario: As the senior network engineer for a large international company you are always trying to optimize your network and get the most out of your time. The network has a lot of IBGP routers and you got…
Read More »BGP Attribute MED
Scenario: The biggest ISP in the carribean needs your help with BGP. One of the junior BGP network engineers configured some new sites but has trouble influencing traffic patterns. Show him how to configure BGP MED and you’ll…
Read More »BGP Attribute AS Path
Scenario: A local steelmill has asked you to help them with their BGP network. The steelmill has two sites and routing information is used by using BGP. Everything is working fine except the backup link is being used…
Read More »BGP Transit AS
Scenario: Tillywood is one of the major movie studios located in Tilburg, The Netherlands. You are working there as a junior network engineer and assigned at the BGP team. One of the trainees has configured part of the…
Read More »BGP MD5 Authentication
Scenario: You are working for a networking site and responsible for creating labs. After a day of working on BGP labs you notice you don’t have any lab on MD5 authentication. BGP authentication is one of the features…
Read More »IBGP – Internal BGP
Scenario: Big Blooms is a fairly large retail company selling all kinds of flowers. Big Blooms has multiple sites and will use BGP in the future to connect all the different sites. Their headquarters network will be used…
Read More »EBGP – External BGP
Scenario: Textilalicious is a large international company specialized in selling Wool, Silk, Cotton and Flax. Each region is specialized in selling a different type of textile. To support the growth of the company network your boss has decided…
Read More »BGP Attribute Origin
Scenario: You are a gunslinger living in Arizona and also a network engineer for the town network. To make sure your town has connectivity with other towns you have configured the town router with BGP. Another town is…
Read More »BGP Attribute Local Preference
Scenario: You work as a network engineer for a laboratium in San Francisco which is specialized in genetic engineering. To exchange research information with other laboratoria and universities you have built a network using BGP. At this moment…
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