Upcoming Labs

While we’re working on new stuff, you can already enjoy two dozen labs. In case you’re curious about what’s coming next, here’s what we’re working on:

• Using No-Export Community to Filter Transit Routes
• BGP Graceful Shutdown
• Using Bird BGP Daemon as a BGP Route Reflector
• BGP Route Server in an Internet Exchange Point
• Use controlled disaggregation to influence inbound traffic flow
• IBGP Load Balancing with BGP Additional Paths
• Minimize the Forwarding Table on Provider Edge Routers

We have plenty of other ideas, including:

Basic BGP Setup

Optional exercises:

• Run BGP on servers
• Multihop EBGP sessions
• Dynamic BGP neighbors
• Passive BGP peers

Advanced exercises:

• Fine-tune BGP Fast External Failover
• Configure BGP graceful restart
• Multihop EBGP sessions with servers

BGP Routing Policies

Advanced exercises:

• Use BGP route refresh and soft reconfiguration
• Use outbound route filters (ORF)

Controlling Inbound Traffic

• Use AS-path prepending together with BGP communities to prevent BGP wedgies
• Use conditional route advertisements to select primary/backup links for the inbound traffic

BGP in Service Provider Networks

• Build a simple service provider network with IBGP
• Use a hierarchy of route reflectors
• Reduce routing instabilities with BGP route flap dampening
• Implement policy-based routing with BGP

Use MPLS with BGP

• Use BGP Labeled Unicast to extend MPLS paths across multiple autonomous systems