What you'll learn:
- Explain the differences between BGP and IGPs.
- Describe the BGP message types (OPEN, UPDATE, ..).
- Recognize BGP states (Idle, Connect, …, Connect).
- Configure BGP neighborship and troubleshoot issues.
- Describe the BGP design solutions.
- Understand BGP route reflection and its benefits.
- Learn the BGP path selection and BGP path attributes (Weight, Local_Pref, ... etc).
- Understand and configure BGP multipathing.
- Understand BGP route advertisement, redistribution, aggregation, and default route.
- Implement BGP conditional advertisements.
- Understand the BGP AS manipulation features.
- Learn BGP route policies and filtering methods.
- Configure route filtering using BGP regular expressions.
- Use BGP communities to control route distribution.
- Describe the BGP peer templates and simplify the BGP neighborship management.
The Cisco Data Centers | MP-BGP course equips network engineers to deploy the BGP protocol effectively in modern data centers and enterprise networks. It also comprehensively covers all BGP topics essential for the CCIE Data Center v3.1 lab exam, focusing on Cisco Nexus platforms.
Although this course targets network professionals and data center specialists, you only need to have basic networking knowledge to enroll in this course! The course explains BGP from scratch.
This professional development and foundational learning course contains the following:
High-quality, technical videos cover all required topics in the CCIE Data Center lab exam.
Lab demos for a better explanation of all features learned in the course.
Quizzes to confirm correct understanding.
External resources to enrich your BGP knowledge.
Packet captures and protocol message formats for detailed information.
Downloadable PDF slides for configuration reference and knowledge review.
The lectures in this course were divided into 7 sections:
BGP Fundamentals: Covers BGP basics, BGPmessage types, BGPstates, and BGPneighborship (peering).
BGP Basic Configuration: Covers essential BGP configuration, verification, and troubleshooting.
BGP Design Solutions: Covers several BGP Designs: RRs, Confederations, full-mesh, and eBGP Route-server.
BGP Path Selection: Covers the best path selection process, by which a BGP router examines the competing BGP paths (routes) in its BGP table for a single prefix, choosing one route as the best route.
BGP Route Advertisement: Covers BGP route advertisements using several methods such as network & redistribute commands, conditional advertisements, default routes, and route aggregation.
BGP Route Policies: Covers BGP route policies using tools such as ASpath manipulation features, route filtering, Regex, Communities, and others.
BGPTemplates: Learn how to use the BGP template to minimize BGP configuration overhead.
