At 4:11 AM +0000 2/11/03, Peter van Oene wrote: >At 11:40 PM 2/10/2003 +0000, Peter Walker wrote: >>Folks >> >>I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for BGP study. I am >>booked in for the BGP beta exam on Friday and still dont feel >>comfortable with my level of BGP knowledge. I have read the following >>over the last few months >> >> Halabi - Internet Routing Architectures. >> Doyle Vol 2 (BGP sections) >> John Stewart III (BGP4 book) >> William Parkhurst (The RFC stuff at the back >> and some of the command reference) >> >>I am going to go back and reread some of Halabi, all of the Parkhurst >>command reference chapters and probably some of the RFCs.
As to the RFCs -- navigate to the IDR Working Group at www.ietf.org, and look at some of the newer documents on BGP. In particular, download the most recent draft of the BGP specification (think it's 18, but might not be). That draft is much closer to industry implementation than RFC 1771. > > >>Does anyone have any additional 'must-read' references that I should >>look at before Friday? I realise that I have all the basic info that I >>need and, to be honest, feel that I could pass the test already. However >>I am one of those people that want to understand things at the >>gut/instinct level and I really dont feel that I am at that point yet. > >If you read all this stuff and still don't understand BGP the way you would >like to, more books likely aren't what you need. I would focus more on >hands on work. Many folks learn better by doing than reading (me for one >:). If you are a Certificationzone subscriber, Howard Berkowitz has a >three tutorial set on BGP that come with some labs to help illustrate >points which might help. But I'm sure just working through some configs on >a lab while following along with your reading material might be the best bet. > BGP didn't truly make sense to me until I studied routing policy. A good starting site for lots of tutorials is www.radb.org. The RFC "Using RPSL in Practice" and the various RPSL tutorials are good starts to understand what you are trying to accomplish with your policy. There's some freeware such as RtConfig on the site, which will translate some routing policy into Cisco config language. It may not support some of the newer features, and you may not have time to set it up by Friday. My Certzone tutorial, of course, is strictly Cisco oriented. I've also written two books, WAN Survival Guide and Building Service Provider Networks, that focus on "what problem are you trying to solve", respectively, from the enterprise and carrier perspective. The latter goes more deeply into BGP case studies, but does not have specific Cisco commands. > > >>Any other suggestions? >> >>Peter Walker >> CISSP, CSS1, CC[NID]P, etc Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62813&t=62784 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
