On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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)
There is a free BGP4 paper by Halabi that as I understand it formed the 'basis' of his book that covers BGP4... it is a very good paper (at least if you are working with Ciscos). Check out: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/bgp.pdf http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/459/bgp-toc.pdf The second one is the BGP4 Case Studies/Tutorial that I referenced so long ago in my ISP days... it is what I learned BGP from. If you ever get into OSPF... he has a similar paper on OSPF, I think it was called a 'Design Guide'... but I don't recall off hand. Hope they help, -- Curt > 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.
