CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, Rough Cuts, 5th Edition

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  • Pages: 656
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  • ISBN-10: 0-13-359107-7
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-359107-1

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Table of Contents

Introduction xxvii
Part I IP BGP Routing
Chapter 1 Fundamentals of BGP Operations 3
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 3
Foundation Topics 8
Building BGP Neighbor Relationships 9
    Internal BGP Neighbors 10
    External BGP Neighbors 13
    Checks Before Becoming BGP Neighbors 14
    BGP Messages and Neighbor States 15
        BGP Message Types 16
        Purposefully Resetting BGP Peer Connections 16
Building the BGP Table 18
    Injecting Routes/Prefixes into the BGP Table 18
        BGP network Command 18
        Redistributing from an IGP, Static, or Connected Route 21
        Impact of Auto-Summary on Redistributed Routes and the network Command 23
        Manual Summaries and the AS_PATH Path Attribute 25
        Adding Default Routes to BGP 29
        ORIGIN Path Attribute 30
        Advertising BGP Routes to Neighbors 31
        BGP Update Message 31
        Determining the Contents of Updates 32
        Example: Impact of the Decision Process and NEXT_HOP on BGP Updates 34
        Summary of Rules for Routes Advertised in BGP Updates 40
Building the IP Routing Table 40
    Adding eBGP Routes to the IP Routing Table 40
    Backdoor Routes 41
    Adding iBGP Routes to the IP Routing Table 42
        Using Sync and Redistributing Routes 44
        Disabling Sync and Using BGP on All Routers in an AS 46
        Confederations 47
        Configuring Confederations 49
        Route Reflectors 52
Multiprotocol BGP 57
    Configuration of Multiprotocol BGP 58
Foundation Summary 63
Memory Builders 66
    Fill In Key Tables from Memory 66
    Definitions 67
    Further Reading 67
Chapter 2 BGP Routing Policies 69
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 69
Foundation Topics 75
Route Filtering and Route Summarization 75
    Filtering BGP Updates Based on NLRI 76
        Route Map Rules for NLRI Filtering 79
        Soft Reconfiguration 79
        Comparing BGP Prefix Lists, Distribute Lists, and Route Maps 80
    Filtering Subnets of a Summary Using the aggregate-address Command 81
    Filtering BGP Updates by Matching the AS_PATH PA 82
        The BGP AS_PATH and AS_PATH Segment Types 82
        Using Regular Expressions to Match AS_PATH 84
        Example: Matching AS_PATHs Using AS_PATH Filters 87
        Matching AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SEQ 91
BGP Path Attributes and the BGP Decision Process 93
    Generic Terms and Characteristics of BGP PAs 93
    The BGP Decision Process 95
        Clarifications of the BGP Decision Process 96
        Three Final Tiebreaker Steps in the BGP Decision Process 96
        Add