Core Topics

• Routing (OSPF and BGP)
• IPv6
• Multihoming

Goals

To teach participants how to set up an operational network with multiple routers, using OSPF as an IGP and BGP as the routing mechanism to connect this network to other networks.

The workshop will also introduce all aspects of IPv6 required by an ISP for their Internet backbone.

The workshop has a further goal to introduce participants to multihoming using BGP. As more and more ISPs investigate redundancy for their operations, or more countries have fibre landing, BGP becomes a very important part of the network design.

Dates

• Track 1: Tuesday, 23rd - Saturday 27th November

Expectations

This is a technical workshop made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. It is open to technical staff who are now or soon will be building or operating a wide area TCP/IP based Internet Service Provider (ISP) network or Internet eXchange Point (IXP), likely with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.

Instructors

• Philip Smith, Cisco Systems, Australia
• Jonny Martin, Packet Clearing House, USA/New Zealand

Course Outline

• Day One Presentations:
  • Routing Basics
  • Intro to OSPF
  • Deploying OSPF
  • Intro to BGP
• Day One Lab Work:
  • Setting up network with OSPF and BGP
• Day Two Presentations:
  • Introduction to IPv6
  • IPv6 Standards & Protocols
  • IPv6 Addressing & Routing Protocols
  • OSPFv3 and BGP for IPv6
• Day Two Lab Work:
  • Adding IPv6 to previous Lab
• Day Three Presentations:
  • BGP Attributes & Policy
• Day Three Lab Work:
  • eBGP Lab (using IPv4 and IPv6)
• Day Four Presentations:
  • BGP Best Practices
  • BGP Scaling
  • Day Four Lab Work:
    • Filtering Lab
  • Day Five Presentations:
    • BGP Multihoming (Part 1)
  • BGP Multihoming (Part 2)
  • Extra Topics: Configuringing Dynamips, Out of Band Management
• Day Five Lab Work:
  • Filtering Lab (cont)

Workshop Materials

The workshop materials and working configurations for each of the lab exercise are available here.