Overview
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Learn the basics of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the essential internet routing protocol. Prepare for the 300-101 ROUTE and 300-135 TSHOOT CCNP exams, with content in this course.
Syllabus
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1. Let's Master BGP, Shall We?
- Intro remarks
- External BGP peering
- iBGP peering and loopback interfaces
- eBGP peering and loopback interfaces
- Advertising routes with the network command
- The origin and next hop attributes
- BGP best path selection process
- The mystery of the next hop address
- Mystery solved
- The multi-exit discriminator (MED)
- Local preference: All or nothing at all
- Local preference: Changing one, but not all
- Carry that weight (attribute)
- More weight
- Route summarization and advertisements
- Synchronization rules and the full mesh
- The why and how of route reflectors
- Prefix lists, part 1
- Prefix lists, part 2
- Success tips
