Open Lab: Routing/BGP (0.5 days)

Synopsis

Open Lab aims to provide more lab time for participants and supplement the open tutorial on the same topic. Trainers facilitate the session, provide support and help with troubleshooting as participants try to complete the labs.

This open lab focuses on BGP routing protocol for building and operating large-scale networks. Participants will learn to configure BGP for IPv4 and IPv6, including iBGP and eBGP, using the APNIC Academy virtual lab.

Target audience

Technical staff who are building or operating a service provider or enterprise network.

Prerequisites

• It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model, TCP/IP.
• Participants must have recently attended the BGP Fundamentals Tutorial.

Other requirements

• Hardware: It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers with Wifi(b/g/n) and administrative access to system to practice the lessons learned during the workshops.
• Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client (PuTTy)
• Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure. Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh [email protected]

Course outline

• Deploying BGP