Roughly 30 years in the past I managed to influence the powers-that-be inside Cisco’s European coaching group that they wanted a deep-dive BGP course, leading to a 3 (later 5) day Superior BGP Configuration and Troubleshooting (ABCT) course. I used to be delivering that course for near a decade, and progressively constructed an honest story explaining the reasoning and use instances behind most of (then out there) BGP options, from easy EBGP periods to BGP route reflectors and communities.
Now think about having greater than a dozen hands-on labs that go along with the “BGP from rookie to hero” story out there for any platform of your selection. I plan to make that work (ultimately) as an open-source undertaking that you simply’ll be capable of obtain and run free-of-charge.
The undertaking might be based mostly on netlab and use Cumulus Linux (or FRR if NVIDIA strays too distant from being helpful) as exterior BGP routers. You’ll be capable of use no matter networking units you want to work on, and in the event that they occur to be supported by netlab you’ll get lab topology and fundamental machine configuration for every lab arrange in seconds. I will even present machine configurations for the exterior BGP routers for individuals who love losing time with GUI.
I already arrange a GitHub repository and created the goal checklist of labs. I’ll ultimately increase it with labs specializing in newer BGP options and BGP safety, but it surely’s already lengthy sufficient that it’s going to take me months to create all of the deliberate labs. I in all probability missed one thing necessary, otherwise you might need higher concepts the way to construction them – go away a remark or (even higher) turn into a contributor and submit a PR.
