On 2006/04/12 20:34, Siju George wrote: > I was trying to get wet with BGP, OpenBGPD, AS nos. etc so that I can > Implement them in my network. Going through the print out of RFC 1930.
The RFCs aren't especially helpful for learning this stuff, unless you're writing an implementation (and even then, RFCs don't document real-world vendor behaviour). Books might be more useful: you often have to translate from cisco-eze into OpenBGP (or JUNOS or whatever), but you'll get good treatment of concepts and how to do things e.g. Internet Routing Architectures (Halabi, Cisco Press) BGP (van Beijnum, O'Reilly) BGP4 (Stewart, Addison-Wesley) and/or play on a test network (which you can build with vmware if you can't spare the real machines). Hopefully it goes without saying that you need a good solid understanding of tcp/ip first. If you aren't familiar with how subnets etc. work you'll find things confusing.
