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, 28th June - Saturday 2nd July

Pre-requisites

This is an advanced workshop. Participants must have experience of routers and dynamic routing protocols to be eligible for the workshop. No IPv6 experience is required, but good familiarity with IPv4 and TCP/IP protocols is a must.

The workshop is intended for network engineering and operations staff to improve and widen their skill sets. It is especially intended for networking organisations who intend to deploy BGP for multihoming, participate in an Internet Exchange Point, or intend to deploy IPv6 across their network and to their customers.

PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING A LAPTOP COMPUTER.

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 will be available at the end of the workshop. The GZIPPED TAR archive (20MBytes) is available now.