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Re: BGP conf
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:44:48 -0500
On 11/2/2011 7:01 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
What you are asking your boss/company to do is trust you to put tires on their car without the right tools or knowledge. The result of that is probably how your network will end up: "a wreck."
Reminds me of the look on my original boss' face when I said, "Well, I have no BGP experience, but I think I'm going to redo this entire BGP config. It doesn't look right." I then proceeded to try every ? hierarchy under bgp in the then cisco routers and read up on every command until I understood each one.
Okay, it was simple, had no route-maps, and used access-lists instead of prefix-lists. It worked for a single 7206 BGP aggregation router.
Now I have the mile long monstrosity that uses BGP communities for everything, and of route-maps/policies with prefix-lists for downstream customers. You have to start somewhere.
cymru secure bgp templates is probably a good beginning. Careful study of your routing platform, what it supports, and reading up on what it means. If you don't understand something, use vendor specific lists/forums/documentation/google until you do.
Jack
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