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Showing posts with label BGP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BGP. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Quick Notes - BGP Dampening with route-map

ip prefix-list XY seq 5 permit 10.0.0.0/15 le 32

route-map DAMPENING permit 10
 match ip address prefix-list XY
 set dampening 15 750 2000 60

router bgp 100
 bgp dampening route-map DAMPENING
 neighbor 192.168.0.2 remote-as 200

Saturday, February 19, 2011

MPLS Scenario

Here is a drawing I put together for MPLS - I was going to configure the scenario and create some troubleshooting scenarios but I have now decided to post it first and let everyone create a working solution.

Once everyone has a chance to create a working solution I will start asking "what ifs"

Feel free to post your solutions



Note: You will not be able to post the entire configuration as I believe there is a limit to the number of characters you can post in the comment field. You can approach it 2 ways

  1. you can email me the solution and I will find a way to post it so everyone can leverage the particular scenario
  2. you can break the solution up by technology. ex: BGP then post MPLS then.......

packets.analyzed@gmail.com

Let me know if this helps with your studies

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Quick Notes - BGP Best Route Selection

BGP Best Route Selection

Once a match is found then the selection process is over

1 - Exclude any route with inaccessible next hop
2 - Prefer highest weight (weight is locally significant)
3 - Prefer highest local preference (globally used in AS)
4 - Prefer routers that were originated by the router
5 - Prefer Shortest AS Path
6 - Prefer lowest origin (IGP, EGP, Incomplete)
7 - Prefer lowest MED (MultiExit Discriminator)
8 - Prefer external paths over internal paths (iBGP)
9 - iBGP path - prefer path through with closest IGP
10 - eBGP path - oldest path
11 - Prefer path with lowest BGP router-id

Monday, November 29, 2010

Question 177

What path attributes would you use to manipulate where outgoing traffic exits?

Question 176

What is the path attributes used to manipulate return traffic?

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Question 161

Alot of people seem to struggle with BGP regular expressions so I put them together the following questions

Here are a list of AS paths  (I just threw them together so we can create regular expressions). The AS that you are in is AS1.

100 110 2009 20093 20100 54 321
100 110 2009 20111 129 22 10
10 200 19 24 39 4 32
16 100 888 1339 2

Create a regular expression that filters routes that originate in AS321
Create a regular expression that filters routes that have instances of AS200 in the path
Create a regular expression that filters routes that are learned from AS10
Create a regular expression that filters routes that are locally originated
Create a regular expression that filters all routes from any AS
Create a regular expression that filters routes that pass through AS39
Create a regular expression that filters routes that have a number "20" anywhere within the AS number or path

Regular Expressions and their usage


^ Start of string                            
$ End of string                              
[] Range of characters                        
- Used to specify range ( i.e. [0-9] )        
( ) Logical grouping                            
. Any single character                        
* Zero or more instances                      
+ One or more instance                        
? Zero or one instance                        
_ Comma, open or close brace, open or close parentheses, start or end of string, or space


Have fun!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Troubleshooting 4

The routing table on R3 should be able to reach 192.168.1.0/24 through 192.168.2.2 and not through 192.168.3.5.

Restrictions: You cannot modify administrative distance or do any type of filtering. The network192.168.1.0/24 must be advertised on R2 in both OSPF and BGP. You must ensure that R2 and R3 are not sending OSPF advertisements to R5. R5 can only use BGP as its routing protocol and must advertise its loopback.


Question 152

Why is the network 2.2.2.2/32 preferring the next-hop 192.168.1.10 even though the next-hop 192.168.2.22 as-path is shorter?

show ip bgp
BGP table version is 2, local router ID is 1.1.1.1
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*>2.2.2.2/32 192.168.1.10 150 100 0 (65050) 100 i
* 192.168.2.22 50 100 0 100 i

Monday, October 18, 2010

Question 145

What is the difference in output when using "show ip bgp" using AS-SET vs no AS-SET?

Question 144

What is the maximum number of network statements allowed in BGP?

Monday, May 24, 2010

Question 122

What does "bgp regexp deterministic" accomplish?

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Question 93

What is BGP ORF?

Monday, May 10, 2010

Question 78

What options are available when using aggregate address in BGP?

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Question 71

How can you determine the BGP AS of a backbone router?

Question 70

What is BGP optimized edge routing (OER)

Question 69

What is the order of preference used in BGP for filtering?

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Question 57

What are the benefits of BGP peer group?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Question 8

Why would you use the BGP listen command?

Monday, April 19, 2010

Question 3

What are the BGP messages and neighbor states?