Practical BGP (Paperback)

Description:

"I would recommend this book to network engineers, internet service providers, network software developers, and IT staff who need to deal with network planning and routing."
--Enke Chen, Redback Networks

Hands-on guidance for deploying and optimizing BGPv4 networks -- enterprise and ISP

Now, there's a practical guide to deploying and managing BGPv4 in any environment -- from small enterprises to the largest Tier 2 and Tier 3 service providers. A team of the world's leading BGP experts brings together powerful insights into network design, configuration, and deployment with the latest version of BGP -- including hands-on guidance for leveraging its key enhancements.

Coverage includes:

• Best practices and diverse real-world scenarios for applying BGPv4
• Understanding the impact of BGP design on local networks and the Internet backbone
• Building effective BGP policies: aggregation, propagation, accounting, and more
• Maximizing scalability and performance in BGPv4 networks
• BGP and network security, including Secure Origin BGP
• Deploying BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
• Extensive troubleshooting guidance unavailable in any other book

If you're a network engineer or administrator looking to drive maximum reliability and performance from BGP-based networks, Practical BGP will help you get the job done -- from start to finish.

Table of Contents:

Preface. 

 1. The Border Gateway Protocol. 

 2. BGP at the Edge. 

 3. Scaling the Enterprise Using BGP. 

 4. Core Design with iBGP. 

 5. BGP Performance. 

 6. BGP Policy. 

 7. New Features in BGP. 

 8. Troubleshooting BGP. 

 9. BGP and Network Security. 

 10. Deploying BGP/MPLS Layer-3 VPNs.

Appendix A. Answers to Review Questions.

Index.