BGP Routing Protocol on Huawei with LABS - Entry

Form a BGP neighborship between two Hawari routers, advertise networks, and ensure reachability through hands-on labs, as the instructor guides step-by-step BGP configuration.

Configure external BGP between two autonomous systems, establish eBGP neighbors, advertise networks, and verify reachability via routing tables across both routers.

Learn to configure eBGP authentication with a shared password on both routers, using cipher passwords to secure neighbor formation and verify with reset options.

Learn to configure ebgp multihop on Huawei by creating connectivity with static routes or igp, extend ttl, and establish BGP neighborship between non-directly connected routers.

Configure eBGP multihop on Huawei devices using connect-interface with lookback interfaces, enabling two-leg BGP sessions across two autonomous systems and load balancing traffic across both links.

Learn how to establish iBGP neighborship within an autonomous system on Huawei devices, address common ISP challenges, and complete a two-part lab to verify iBGP routing.

Configure ibgp across an isp network using lookback interfaces and area zero, advertise networks, and troubleshoot next-hop behavior to ensure reachability from all customers.

Troubleshoot and configure iBGP in a Huawei lab, enabling IGP inside the autonomous system, advertising networks, and setting next-hop to ensure reachability between routers.

Learn how iBGP split horizon prevents looping by enforcing a full mesh inside the IGP, illustrated through lab setups of BGP neighbor relationships and route propagation.

Explore BGP messages and neighborship states with labs to diagnose and troubleshoot BGP peer connections. Understand idle and active states as neighborships form and what background messages indicate.

Explore the four BGP messages—open, update, keepalive, and notification—through a hands-on lab, capturing traffic with Wireshark to understand peer establishment and prefix updates.

Learn the BGP states idle, connect, active, open sent, open confirm, and established, and how three way handshakes, keep alive messages, and update messages establish and maintain neighbor sessions.

Explore how BGP route selection works and how well-known attributes influence traffic paths, with hands-on labs on Huawei devices to apply and observe attribute-based routing.

Analyze how BGP selects routes between autonomous systems using attributes like weight and local preference, and how traffic decisions are made without forcing neighbors, illustrated with Huawei labs.

Learn how the Huawei BGP preferred value attribute steers traffic between two ISPs by setting a higher local value on one path, while keeping changes locally scoped and non-propagating.

Explain how the local preference attribute in BGP steers traffic by raising the value on one router, propagating to all iBGP peers, and prioritizing the desired network.

Apply BGP AS path prepend to influence traffic flow on Hawari routers with labs. Learn how adding autonomous systems reshapes path selection and directs routes via route policy.

Learn how the BGP origin code attribute influences path selection in a Huawei lab, using IGP, incomplete origins, and redistribution to steer traffic between routers.

Configure the BGP MED attribute to influence traffic by setting a higher MED on a router and exporting it to peers within the AS, demonstrating its effect on Huawei routing.

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