I recommend such thing (remembering, how we learned BGP ourself many years ago, and then participated in edition of the book about BGP). But it all depends of complexity. 2 uplink multihome site - simple case; 100 node backbone with reflectors and private AS-es - another one.
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 21:35, David E. Smith wrote:
"Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller..."
Can anyone recommend a good forum for BGP questions? I've got my copy of
the
O'Reilly book handy, but having never really worked with BGP before, I find it's not really the best novice-level work.
Within the E-Next network of excellence, we organised two weeks ago a two-days tutorial on BGP. This tutorial assumes that the attendees have a basic understanding of IP routing works but no prior knowledge of BGP is assumed. The tutorial has a theoretical part covering the behaviour of the BGP protocol and a practical part with the C-BGP simulator (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) whose syntax is close to Cisco routers.
Upon request from some attendees of the tutorial who intend to deliver BGP courses within their universities, we have released all the training material under a creative commons licence, see : http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/bgp.html
Suggestions and comments on improvements to this training material are welcome
Best regards,
Olivier Bonaventure -- CSE Dept. UCL, Belgium - http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/OBO/