"Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller..."
Can anyone recommend a good forum for BGP questions? I've got my copy of the
O'Reilly book handy, but having never really worked with BGP before, I find
it's not really the best novice-level work.
(Or, if questions about weird inter-AS routing scenarios are on-topic here, I'd
be glad to bounce my problems around on NANOG.)
Thanks!
David Smith
MVN.net
There was excellent docuent on Cisco (better than book). I can search for
it, if you want.
Btw, BGP is not for dummies, too many possible consequencies of config
errors are possible.
There was excellent docuent on Cisco (better than book). I can search for
it, if you want.
This one is not too bad ..
Practical BGP (Russ White, Danny McPherson, Srihari Sangli)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321127005/103-1122659-1873401?v=glance
Btw, BGP is not for dummies, too many possible consequencies of config
errors are possible.
Sometimes that's the best way to learn .. when you have accidentally
messed up configs on a router that's halfway across town once, have to
drive over and fix the resulting mess, you learn quite fast not to
repeat that mistake again 
If this guy was anywhere in the asiapac region I'd just have asked him
to attend the workshops and tutorials at SANOG or APRICOT - there are
a lot more teaching in those two events than you see in NANOG
meetings.
--srs
This is a bit dated, but a good place to start..
BGP4 Case Studies - Sam Halabi
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/courses/netdesign/halabi/halabi-bgp4-case-studies-tutorial.pdf#search=‘halabi%20bgp%20cisco’
For a forum try: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-routing/
Internet.com has a number of forums in this genre, just poke around their website a bit..
John
Here is it:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800c95bb.shtml
Very good document.
Within the E-Next network of excellence, we organised two weeks ago a
two-days tutorial on BGP. This tutorial assumes that the attendees have
a basic understanding of IP routing works but no prior knowledge of BGP
is assumed. The tutorial has a theoretical part covering the behaviour
of the BGP protocol and a practical part with the C-BGP simulator
(http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be) whose syntax is close to Cisco routers.
Upon request from some attendees of the tutorial who intend to deliver
BGP courses within their universities, we have released all the training
material under a creative commons licence, see :
http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/bgp.html
Suggestions and comments on improvements to this training material are
welcome
Best regards,
Olivier Bonaventure
Try: http://www.itprc.com/routing.htm
Look under the "BGP" sub-heading for links to a lot of info.
Irwin
I recommend such thing (remembering, how we learned BGP ourself many years
ago, and then participated in edition of the book about BGP).
But it all depends of complexity. 2 uplink multihome site - simple case; 100
node backbone with reflectors and private AS-es - another one.
> "Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller..."
>
> Can anyone recommend a good forum for BGP questions? I've got my copy of
the
> O'Reilly book handy, but having never really worked with BGP before, I
find
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To my mind, John Stewart's "BGP4: Inter-Domain Routing on the Internet" is the best networking book ever. Unfortunately, it is also one of those books (just like "A Brief History of Time) that one leant is never returned. I must have bought around 10-12 copies of it by now. It is well written, concise (around 150 pages) and deals with real world scenarios.
I strongly recommend it,
Warren.
- -- Never criticize a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes.��Then if he didn't like what you've said, he's a mile away and barefoot.