
BGP
Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: March 2010
Pages: 288
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- Requesting an AS number and IP addresses
- Route filtering by remote ISPs and how to avoid this
- Configuring the initial BGP setup
- Balancing the available incoming or outgoing traffic over the available connections
- Securing and troubleshooting BGP
- BGP in larger networks: interaction with internal routing protocols, scalability issues
- BGP in Internet Service Provider networks
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 The Internet, Routing, and BGP
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Topology of the Internet
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TCP/IP Design Philosophy
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Routing Protocols
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Multihoming
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Chapter 2 IP Addressing and the BGP Protocol
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IP Addresses
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Interdomain Routing History
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The BGP Protocol
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Multiprotocol BGP
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Interior Routing Protocols
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Chapter 3 Physical Design Considerations
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Availability
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Selecting ISPs
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Bandwidth
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Router Hardware
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Failure Risks
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Building a Wide Area Network
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Network Topology Design
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Chapter 4 IP Address Space and AS Numbers
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The Different Types of Address Space
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Requesting Address Space
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Renumbering IP Addresses
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The AS Number
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Routing Registries
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Routing Policy Specification Language
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Chapter 5 Getting Started with BGP
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Enabling BGP
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Monitoring BGP
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Clearing BGP Sessions
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Filtering Routes
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Internal BGP
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The Internal Network
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Minimizing the Impact of Link Failures
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eBGP Multihop
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Chapter 6 Traffic Engineering
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Knowing Which Route Is Best
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Route Maps
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Setting the Local Preference
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Manipulating Inbound AS Paths
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Inbound Communities
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BGP Load Balancing
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Traffic Engineering for Incoming Traffic
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Setting the MED
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Announcing More Specific Routes
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Queuing, Traffic Shaping, and Policing
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Chapter 7 Security and Integrity of the Network
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Passwords and Security
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Software
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Protecting BGP
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Denial-of-Service Attacks
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Chapter 8 Day-to-Day Operation of the Network
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The Network Operations Center
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NOC Hardware Facilities
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SNMP Management
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Router Names
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General IP Network Management
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Chapter 9 When Things Start to Go Down: Troubleshooting
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Keeping a Clear Head
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Managing the Troubleshooting Process
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Dealing with Service Providers
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Physical and Datalink Layer Problems
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Routing and Reachability Problems
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Black Holes
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DNS Problems
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Chapter 10 BGP in Larger Networks
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Peer Groups
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Using Loopback Addresses for iBGP
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iBGP Scaling
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Dampening Route Flaps
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OSPF as the IGP
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Traffic Engineering in the Internal Network
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Network Partitions
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Chapter 11 Providing Transit Services
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Route Filters
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Communities
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Anti-DoS Measures
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Customers with Backup Connections
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Providing IPv6 and Multicast
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Chapter 12 Interconnecting with Other Networks
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Peering
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Internet Exchanges, NAPs, and MAEs
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Connecting to an Internet Exchange
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Connecting to More Exchange Points
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Rejecting Unwanted Traffic
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IX Subnet Problems
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Talking to Other Network Operators
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Exchange Point Future
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Appendix Cisco Configuration Basics
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IP Configuration Essentials
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Appendix Binary Logic, Netmasks, and Prefixes
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Appendix Notes on the IPv4 Address Space
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Glossary
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Colophon