BGP Mastery For The CCNP ROUTE And TSHOOT Exams

BGP configurations often use loopbacks to create adjacencies.  In this lecture, you'll see exactly how to do that - and the one command you must add to your config to make it work!

We'll go over the theory of this attribute, and then see it in action during a live lab - using a topology guaranteed to help you master this important BGP attribute!

We continue our in-depth discussions and labs on BGP attributes with labs illustrating the use of the Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED) and Local Preference attributes.

This lab has it all - eBGP connections, iBGP connections, multiple adjacency points - and it's a great way to see how to change this attribute and how to look out for any "side effects".

Using the same topology from the previous lecture, we'll see how to use route maps to change that attribute value - and a few other little details about route maps as well.

Using a different topology than the previous labs, we'll get some work in with the weight attribute.  After that, I'll introduce you to BGP route aggregation - and that'll prep us for the next lecture where we'll put aggregation into action.

A lot going on in this lecture!   We'll practice BGP route aggregation and use BOTH options for this in our lab - they give very different results, so you better know which option gives which result for your exam and network - and you'll see the results of each.  After that, we'll discuss synchronization and a very important BGP concept, "route reflectors".  We'll see exactly how those routes are reflected -and to whom!

All right,  a new kind of list! : )   Seriously, working with prefix lists is important with BGP and as part of your NP studies, so we'll take a close look at them in this lecture.

Route reflectors are one way to logically link BGP speakers together, but not the only way.  In this lecture we'll take a look at two other common methods, peer groups and confederations.