BGP Design and Implementation (Fundamentals)

Definitely not a beginners book for BGP, if you want to learn BGP from the ground up, look toward Routing TCP/IP Volume II, then continue to this book. This book goes into great detail on how BGP works and how it configured to work better. A definite read for anyone pursuing CCIP or CCIE certification, or if you work with BGP and need to get a deeper knowledge of it's workings.

This book is very well written, If you've been working with BGP for few years this will fill all the gaps in knowledge and give a complete understanding of the technology. Excellent reference book!

I purchased this book to further my CCIE studies. It is a MUST have, this dives into the deep stuff we need for the CCIE path. Note that this is for individuals who are already CCNP level.

If you wanna be a master in BGP technology, this book should be a must. It explains in detailed the BGP technology and offers an advanced level.

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Randy Zhang and Micah Bartell's BGP Design and Implementation (ISBN: 1587051095, Cisco Press) is a new and welcome addition to Cisco Press's growing BGP library. Unlike previous BGP works, this book assumes that the reader already has a solid understanding of BGP theory and mechanics, and is geared for those people interested in real world BGP design, implementation, and management in enterprise and service provider networks. The book covers the following four major categories: * Advanced BGP: Building Blocks, Performance Tuning, Policy Control * Designing BGP Enterprise Networks: Core & Internet Connectivity * Designing BGP Service Provider Networks: iBGP, Route Reflection & Confederations, and Service Provider Architecture * Implementing BGP Multiprotocol Extensions: MPLS VPN, Multicast, IPv6 As the title suggests, BGP Design and Implementation goes into the depths of what to consider when implementing or managing a large BGP network. It is not for the casual reader as it is filled with large-scale design theory, and unless you are actually working with BGP at this level, it will be mostly an academic exercise and can drag on at times. Other foundational BGP theory books such as Halabi's Internet Routing Architectures will be a better fit for the CCNP/CCIE student. On the other hand, if the reader does or is contemplating using BGP at the enterprise or service provider level, this is an excellent resource to read and keep as a reference. The real value of this book is in the practical configuration designs that the authors propose based off of their experiences. For example, the explanation of BGP memory and CPU tuning based on small packet handling efficiency is not only surprisingly informative, but Zhang and Bartell solidify their theory by providing benchmark results. Not to be misunderstood, there is plenty of "theory" in this book, but it normally prefaces a case study that ties the practical to the theoretical. It was good to see examples of a BGP implementation at the enterprise core instead of merely seeing ISP connectivity examples, although there is plenty of information in that area as well. The service provider section of the book proves to be interesting, going into examples of how providers more commonly use route reflectors, or how transit and peering connectivity is controlled, but it seems that the authors are writing more to the enterprise customer than they are to the service provider. Perhaps they do this so the enterprise customer can have a better understanding of the carrier network. From a provider perspective, much of the information seems basic and would not be new to an experienced network engineer. It's in the final section of BGP extensions regarding MPLS VPN's, multicast, and IPv6, that the information presented might be of additional value to the service provider engineer. The typical customer might be more accustomed of thinking about VPN's in terms of IPSec and IKE, or simple static rendezvous points for multicast. It's interesting to see how BGP can help expand these concepts into a broader scale, spreading across disparate networks and protocols. If you have the proper expectations before reading the book, there really aren't that many drawbacks to the book itself. The majority of the information is not a repeat from previous works on BGP, and there is a good amount of practical examples and case studies. There aren't a lot of straight IOS config examples, but rather much of the conversation stays at the design level, which if you're the type of person that prefers to actually see the CLI commands, this can be frustrating at times. It's also questionable as to how valuable the third section of the book (service provider networks) would be to actual experienced service providers, but from an enterprise customer perspective, it is very informative. To the casual reader and someone not very familiar with BGP, this book will most likely prove to be much too boring and technically challenging. Perhaps a subtitle of "Enterprise and Service Provider Networks" would have better clarified the scope of the book. BGP Design and Implementation is an excellent resource for people serious about BGP, and it is even more helpful to those actually working with BGP as it provides useful, practical design and tuning models.

We can say that this book is quite old (2004) compared to all the recent documentation that you can find somewhere on the internet. With that being said, we can also say that BGP didnt really evolved since and I can assure you that this book is a must read to understand BGP. I guess you will need some fundamentals to start the book because you are directly jumping into the core of BGP (Advanced BGP introduction) You ll learn the different attributes of course (Simple review) and the way that the Control plane and Data planes are handled with BGP. Then the authors teach you how to improve the performance of this protocol. The approach is great because it cames with some nice example ! The case study are also very usefull ! The Part II and III are focusing the way to design your BGP networks in both enterprise and ISP domain (The route reflector/Confederation part is so great for ISP guys but also for enterprise you that wanna dig deeper You will find 4 cases studies into this part. I have never went that deep into my CCIE RS studies for sure ! The book is ending with MP BGP (MPLS VPN,IPV6,Multicast part) it's missing some recent features of BGP like next hop tracking but this is just a very small part of BGP so it's not a big deal, Honestly this is the best book to read if you want some Advanced BGP understanding.

Very helpful

Excellent book for bgp

Cisco Systems 642-661試験 なんとか合格しました。 この試験、CCIE ルーティング＆スイッチング用の教材で学習し攻略は不可能でした。 理由としてBGP試験はサービスプロバイダートラックであり、ルーティング＆スイッチングトラックではありません。 なのでルーティング＆スイッチングトラック以上の広範で幅広い問題が発生します。 なので、CCIEも対象とするルーティング＆スイッチングトラック対象のBGP教材だけでは必ず落ちます。 重ねて申し上げますが、ルーティング＆スイッチングトラックのBGPとサービスプロバイダートラックのBGPは想定範囲が根本的に異なると思われます。 この、642-661試験に対応する教材は、米国Cisco Press(洋書）のBGP Design And Implementationのみと思いました。この本だけで絶対合格可能です。 将来CCIEを目指し、またCCIEに相応しい実力を身につけたいのならば、こたえの丸暗記などせず、 Cisco Pressの洋書を死ぬ気でかじりついて読破しまくり、Ciscoの考え方を把握し、高度に構成されたネットワーク技術の全体像を理解する。 これに尽きると実感しています。

This book is highly overrated. First of all despite the published date which is 2016 the book is from 2004 as they are talking about IOS 12 as super new fancy stuff... which right now belongs to museum. Because of that some stuff is just outdated and its done differently than its described. Some of the topics which are very simple are described in crazy detail like migration from confederation to RR meanwhile others like vpnv4 between different providers are squeezed on just a few pages making it hard to understand. On top of that there is lack of consistency when at the beginning of the chapter they says we will use 192.168.100.X where X is ID of the device and then in the SAME chapter few pages later without telling you they are changing L0 to something completely different making it even more confusing. This book provides some useful info (thats why I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1) but Cisco should completely remake this book to follow current standards/designs/best practices

タイトルにも書かれてあるとおり、Cisco機器にてBGP-4を運用／(設計＆)構築する際に大きく参考になる本。 BGP-4に関しては、コマンドだけであれば別冊のコマンドリファレンスを読めば良いのだが、BGP-4での個々の属性についての細かい解説や、BGP-4を運用する上でのCPUの大まかな使用率が記載されているなど、非常に細かい内容まで記載されている。その意味では、主にCisco7200、Catalyst6500系を用いてBGPを設計／構築／運用する際には、大きく役に立つ本になるだろう。また、BGP-4の概念について細かく解説されているので、BGPをしっかりと勉強したい、と言う人にもお勧めの本だと思う。 ただし、刊行されたのが2003年なので、最近の実装はあまり書かれていません。そこは要注意ですね。