Chapter 9: Scaling BGP

Outline:

Chapter Review 
Chapter Overview 
9.1 Route Reflectors
9.1.1 Route Reflector basics
9.1.2 Internal peers without Route Reflectors
9.1.3 Internal peers with Route Reflectors
9.1.4 Route reflector operation
9.2 BGP Route Filtering and Policy Routing
9.2.1 BGP route filtering
9.2.2 Using filters to implement routing policy
9.2.3 Using distribute-list to filter BGP routes
9.2.4 The ip prefix-list command
9.2.5 Example ip prefix-list configuration
9.3 The Community Attribute
9.3.1 Community attribute overview
9.3.2 Community attribute configuration example
9.4 Peer Groups
9.4.1 Overview of peer groups
9.4.2 Peer group configuration example
9.5 Redundancy, Symmetry, and Load Balancing
9.5.1 Issues with redundancy, symmetry, and load balancing
9.5.2 Redundancy
9.5.3 Default routing in BGP networks
9.5.4 Symmetry
9.5.5 Load balancing
9.5.6 Redundancy, symmetry, and load balancing in a single-homed AS
9.5.7 Multihomed connections
9.6 BGP Redistribution
9.6.1 BGP redistribution overview
9.6.2 Injection of unwanted or faulty information
9.6.3 Injecting information statically into BGP
9.6.4 BGP redistribution configuration example
9.7 Scaling BGP Lab Exercises
9.7.1 BGP route relectors and route filters
9.7.2 The BGP COMMUNITIES attribute
9.7.3 BGP peer groups
9.8 Configuring BGP Challenge Lab Exercise
9.8.1 BGP challenge lab
Chapter Summary
Chapter Quiz