Upcoming Labs
While we’re working on new stuff, you can already enjoy two dozen labs. In case you’re curious about what’s coming next, here’s what we’re working on:
- Using Bird BGP Daemon as a BGP Route Reflector
- Implement Anycast Services with BGP
- EBGP-Only Data Center Design
- Multihop EBGP peering in a high-availability firewall scenario
- Firewall-on-a-stick scenario with two VRFs in the directly attached router.
We have plenty of other ideas, including:
Basic BGP Setup
- Advanced exercises:
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- Configure BGP graceful restart
Controlling Inbound Traffic
- Use conditional route advertisements to select primary/backup links for the inbound traffic
BGP in Service Provider Networks
- Use a hierarchy of route reflectors
- Reduce routing instabilities with BGP route flap dampening
- Implement policy-based routing with BGP
- Remote-triggered black hole
- External bogon feed
- Centralized route collection service (like bgp.tools)
- Using RPKI for route validation (with Routinator as the source of RPKI information)
See this LinkedIn post for more details.
Advanced Scenarios
- Peering across a low-end router using a default route
See this blog post for more details.
Use MPLS with BGP
- Use BGP Labeled Unicast to extend MPLS paths across multiple autonomous systems