[c-nsp] BGP primer recco

[Scott Granados]

And of course, Routing and the Internet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juuso Lehtinen" <juuso.lehtinen at gmail.com>
To: "Eric Gauthier" <eric at roxanne.org>
Cc: "Jeff Bacon" <bacon at walleyesoftware.com>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP primer recco


>I second that. I also recommend Routing TCP/IP Volume 2 by Jeff Doyle and
> Jennifer DeHaven Caroll. Published by Cisco Press.
>
> -Juuso
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Gauthier <eric at roxanne.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Internet Routing Architectures" by Halabi.
>>
>> Eric :)
>>
>> > 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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