BGP Overview.ppt

BGP Overview Objectives Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to perform the following tasks: Explain the need for BGP and typical BGP usage scenarios Describe basic BGP technical characteristics Describe BGP path attributes Describe BGP session establishment and routing information exchange Configure basic BGP on Cisco router Monitor and troubleshoot basic BGP setup Objectives Upon completion of this section, you will be able to perform the following tasks: Explain the need for interdomain routing Describe the need for external routing protocol List the basic BGP technical characteristics Identify typical BGP usage scenarios Explain BGP limitations Interdomain Routing Interdomain Routing Goals Scalability Internet has over 80,000 routes and is still growing Secure routing information exchange Routers from another autonomous system cannot be trusted Tight filters are required, authentication is desirable Routing policies support Routing between autonomous systems might not always follow the optimum path Routing Policies - Case Study Q: Assuming standard IGP route selection rules, how will the traffic between AS1 and AS20 flow? Q: Will AS 2 allow this traffic? Q: How would you solve this problem with OSPF or EIGRP? BGP Characteristics Distance-vector protocol with enhancements: Reliable updates Triggered updates only Rich metrics (called path attributes) Designed to scale to huge internetworks Reliable Updates Uses TCP as transport protocol No periodic updates Periodic keepalives to verify TCP connectivity Triggered updates are batched and rate-limited (every 5 seconds for internal peer, every 30 seconds for external peer) Common BGP Usages Customer connected to one Internet Service Provider (ISP) Customer connected to several Service Providers Service Provider networks (transit autonomous systems) Service providers exchanging traffic at an exchange point (CIX, GIX, NAP …) Network cores of large enterprise customers Single-homed Customers Large custome