[c-nsp] BGP primer recco

[Alex Balashov]

I enjoyed the O'Reilly BGP book - has always served me well.

Jeff Bacon wrote:

> Hi folks - 
> 
> Need to learn BGP. Cisco-focused ok. Looking for the right book to buy.
> Willing to buy 2-3 to get the right one.
> 
> I know the very fundamentals of BGP, and conversant in most other IOS
> topics (route-maps and route redist, weights, IGPs). I can set up a
> basic neighbor and get IBGP vs EBGP, but need to understand community
> strings and weighting in BGP-world - used to an EIGRP/OSPF world
> primarily.
> 
> Goal is to know how to effectively multi-home our enterprise (3 offices,
> 4 ISPs, we have an assigned ASN and /24), including redirecting inet
> traffic between the sites over our private WAN links. Not looking to run
> a tier-1 ISP or anything like that. (Yes, I know it can be a rats-nest
> to multi-home. My needs are limited; also, it isn't just for the public
> internet, I also need to present multi-home over BGP to trading partners
> from our multiple sites over multiple links. I intend to keep the two
> routing domains separate tho.) 
> 
> So essentially I need "BGP for non-dummies that is also a good reference
> book". 
> 
> (Yes, I also have the mandatory on-call
> friend-who-does-this-for-a-living to pester, but he does it for a living
> for someone else, and I want him to remain a friend. :)  )
> 
> Thanks,
> -bacon
> 
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