From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 14:59:45 GMT-3
This is a must to have book of you are working in SP or large enterprise w/ complex BGP. However, you must have a basic understanding of BGP knowledge in order catch all the text in this book.
Dustin
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> What do you guys think of the book "BGP Design and Implementation" by Cisco
> Press.
>
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> From: James [mailto:james@towardex.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:39 PM
> To: Howard C. Berkowitz
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> Subject: Re: Enterprise BGP Design
>
>
> > Phil Smith and Barry Greene do have a book on the subject, Cisco ISP
> > Essentials.
>
> ahhh yes. That book is certainly one of those must-have from Cisco Press
> in my opinion (may be not so related to CCIE studies, but more so in real life).
> :) Barry and Phil in that book mostly speak straight out of experience, rather
> than theoratical content which is what I enjoyed the most. Then they have the
> whole sample topology and configuration set at the end.
>
> I should look into the two other books you listed later on, thanks for the info!
>
> -J
>
> > I also have NANOG presentations and two books in this
> > area, the books coming at the problem a little differently: one, WAN
> > Survival Guide, is more oriented to the enterprise interface to the
> > carrier, and the other, Building Service Provider Networks, is the
> > complement at the provider side of the network.
> >
> > As James suggests, the line between complex enterprise and service
> > provider can get blurry. For example, with one multinational
> > enterprise that was extremely distributed, the policy requirements
> > were such that each region needed to be a confederation AS, typically
> > associated with one IGP domain, and then there was a
> > backbone-of-backbones with the main AS number. Since there was
> > connectivity to ISPs all over the world, there was some connectivity
> > directly from confederation AS. Depending on the specific
> > requirements, the confederation could be a registered AS number, use
> > the main number, or use a private ASN.
> >
> > >
> > >IMHO, I'd use IBGP at the core. Run EBGP with upstreams, and any downstream
> > >sites requiring bgp hookup to the backbone.
> > >
> > >HTH,
> > >-J
> > >
> > >
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