Dovid, Since your company already owns an AS , external consulting would probably be the best way to go. Dealing with BGP sometimes can be tricky and needs a lot of knowledge, it can be very dangerous for a CCNA to try to set this up like a lab.
But I strongly recommend you these 2 books, so you can understand how BGP works and you can troubleshoot the install in the future avoiding to call others. http://www.amazon.com/BGP-Design-Implementation-Randy-Zhang/dp/1587051095?tag=jasonwiener-20 http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-Schlossnagle/dp/067232699X?tag=jasonwiener-20 Rgs, 2011/1/27 Andrew Miehs <and...@2sheds.de> > Hi David, > > On 27/01/2011, at 5:29 PM, Dovid Bender wrote: > > > 1) I do not know much about Cisco. I assumed that if one router failed > then the second one would do the BGP. > > 2) We have an AS and I was told that we would need to BGP to advertise > our IP's. We also need to do it so we are ISP independent and can decide who > to work with. > > I would recommend using BGP in such a circumstance > > > 3) What other information would you need ? Like I said I am a bit of n00b > here. > > Budget and Network Plans. > > Personally, I would suggest getting some external consulting - perhaps one > of your providers can provide this. > > Depending on how you do your load balancing, you may not require full > feeds. The hardware you will be looking at will probably be a pair of > ASR1001s > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9343/prod_models_comparison.html > > or a Cisco 3900s > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10536/prod_series_comparison.html > > > But all this depends very much on your network plan. > > > > Regards > > Andrew _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/