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Introduction to Peering and BGP Routing Training (October 2024)

We are pleased to announce the following date for our popular training course:

Course Title	Introduction to Peering and BGP Routing
Date	9-10 October 2024 (2 days)
Time	Start: 09:30 End: ~17:00
Location	Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Travel and Accommodation

Who should attend?

Ideal for anyone wishing to learn the principles of Service Provider networks: Internet Peering, Transit, and how to understand and create a BGP configuration and routing policy.

Course Prerequisites

CCNA or equivalent experience and/or;
Being engaged in a role within a peering network, (e.g. NOC, network teams, peering or operations)
You will need to bring a laptop computer with WiFi and power supply.
You will need an SSH2 client installed such as PuTTY (windows) or in-built “ssh” terminal for Mac
Some prior knowledge of using the Cisco/Arista or similar CLI would be beneficial, but is not essential.

What’s it like?

The course starts with a refresher on Layers 1-3 in the OSI model (Cabling, Layer 2 networking, IP Subnetting) and covers the principles of Service Provider networks: Transit, Peering, Autonomous Systems, routing protocols.

You will start with a blank configuration, and over two days build a fully working network with BGP.

Using hands-on labs, we guide participants through configuring two routers running OSPF (as an example IGP) with iBGP and eBGP sessions to multiple Transit networks, and then establish peering with other participants both over an IXP and using a route server.

Note: Although we do cover IPv6 addressing in this course, the configurations are done with IPv4. However, the principles for BGP are the same for IPv6.

The afternoon of day 2 is reserved for troubleshooting, routing security and further exploration of routing problems that can occur: route leaks, prefix hijacks and blackholes.

We leave the training lab running for 2 weeks after the course, should you wish to log in again to revisit any of the labs, or just experiment further. (Further access is available provided there is no other course due to run in the lab.)

Content

Introduction to Peering and BGP Routing is a two day introductory workshop covering:

Internet: Peering and Transit
Routing technology overview
7 Layer OSI model and IP
Basics of IP subnetting: CIDR, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
Using the command line (CLI)
Configuring an IGP, iBGP
Configuring BGP for peering and transit
Route servers
IRRDB and RPKI
Routing and peering policy
MANRS
Tools: LONAP IXP Manager Portal, PeeringDB and others.

Registration

Thanks to support from ASK4, we are again able to offer this course free of charge.
Places are limited due to the hands-on nature of the course.
Please do not book a place unless you are able to attend both days of the course.
We are limiting places to two individuals per organisation. If more people at your organisation would like to attend, please contact us. Places will be offered where possible.
Please ensure that you have correctly filled in your email and phone number so that we can contact you if the course arrangements change at short notice.
If the course is full, you may register on the waiting list on a first-come, first-served basis if a place becomes available.
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