We are planning to run this course again in London, April 2023 (2 days).
Please register your interest below, and we’ll let you know when the date is confirmed.
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
- Registration will open when the date and venue has been confirmed.
- Register your interest here and we’ll let you know when registration is available.
Registration for this course is TBC.
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