
Master route filtering with route maps, distribute lists, and ACLs or prefix lists. Apply top-down if-then logic for filtering, PBR, redistribution metrics, and BGP path selection.
Learn to configure route filtering with route maps and distribute lists in an EIGRP lab, using access lists and prefix lists to filter specific 10.x routes on R3, with verification.
Understand why BGP is essential for global internet routing, replacing IGPs with path-vector routing between autonomous systems to enable scalable, stable connectivity.
Learn how BGP route propagation and packet forwarding connect customer networks across service providers, using next hop and AS path to select best path, with loop prevention and policy-based routing.
Explore the characteristics of BGP—reliability, scalability, and stability—along with terms like BGP speaker, BGP peer, route aggregation, and AS numbers for internet routing.
Learn how BGP adjacencies are established through open messages, negotiate version and security parameters, and monitor hold timer and keepalive, then verify with show ip BGP neighbors.
Learn how the BGP AS path length determines the best route, how AS path prepending affects paths, and how to use show ip bgp to compare routes and prevent loops.
Explore the BGP origin code: i for IGP, ? for unknown or redistributed, and e for external EGP, and see how the originating router marks this in show ip bgp.
Discover how BGP local preference guides outbound path selection across an AS by assigning higher values (default 100) to favor a top path, with iBGP scope and weight comparison.
Shows a lab demo of configuring BGP local preference to steer traffic via the bottom path, with selective policy for the 203 network using route maps and prefix lists.
Demonstrate how as path prepending in bgp lengthens route to influence inbound traffic across multiple providers, using C1A and C1B and SP1, SP2 to steer via the high bandwidth link.
Explore the basics of BGP route filtering, including outbound filtering best practices and available tools. Learn how AS path filters, ACLs, prefix lists, route maps, and communities shape policy.
Explore how to implement as path filtering using regular expressions, configure ACLs or prefix lists, apply route maps for BGP attributes, and verify results with show commands to control routes.
Configure BGP filtering to expose a subset of the internet routing table. Use ACLs and prefix lists, AS-path filters, and ORF for inbound or outbound control and default routes.
Learn how private BGP communities tag routes to drive actions like local preference within and between ASes, with examples using 65001:1200 and configuration with route-maps, send-community, and verification.
Learn how multi-protocol BGP uses AFI/SAFI address families to exchange IPv4 and IPv6 routes with separate sessions and best practices for neighbor activation.
configure bgp for ipv6 with address families, define ipv6 neighbors (iBGP and eBGP), enable update-source loopback 0, apply next-hop-self, and verify ipv6 network advertisement and policy.
If you want to take your networking career to the next level by mastering BGP on Cisco routers, then this course is for you! It gives you a deep understanding of how BGP works, and how to configure and troubleshoot it.
This is the one course you need to master BGP on Cisco routers.
Full lab exercises are included so you'll get the hands-on practical skills you need to work on real world networks, and it's the only BGP course online where all questions posted in the Q&A section are answered.
It offers an easy to understand, structured approach to shortcut your path to mastering BGP.
In this course, you will:
· Develop advanced level Cisco BGP networking knowledge and practical skills
· Walk through complete and easy to understand explanations of each BGP concept
· Follow simple step by step instructions to build your own fully featured lab on your laptop
· Gain hands on configuration and troubleshooting experience through comprehensive lab exercises
· Learn how advanced networking really works through real world examples throughout the course
· Gain demonstrable knowledge and practical experience to supercharge your networking career
Supercharge Your Learning with Hands-on Practice
This course is chock full of activities. You’ll get over 150 pages of hands-on lab exercises with detailed answers to check your understanding every step of the way and build your configuration and troubleshooting skills. Full diagrams and lab setup files are included so you can get started immediately with just your laptop. No hardware equipment is required.
All slides in the course are also included in supplemental study notes format with expanded bullet points clearly explaining the concepts.
Why Learn from Me
In this course, you won’t just gain the book smarts to understand BGP. You’ll also hone your hands-on skills to succeed as a network engineer in the real world. I’m a professional instructor who has been entrusted by Cisco since 2007 to develop and deliver training courses for their own engineers and partners. I’ve also designed multiple training courses for the largest service providers in the Asia Pacific region such as IBM, Verizon, and the Australian National Broadband Network. I’ve spent years distilling my decades’ worth of networking experience from the field into mentoring and supporting other systems engineers, and I’m passionate about passing my knowledge of Cisco networks onto others.
As a student in this course, you’ll get lifetime access to the course materials and answers to every question you ask in the Q&A board. I love interacting with my students: anything you want to know, please ask.
Value
If you take a comparable BGP course at a training centre it will cost you thousands of dollars, and when it’s over you can’t experience the tutorials again or ask the instructor any more questions. When you take my course you can learn anytime you want in the comfort of your own home, and I’m always here for you whenever you need any help.
Not sure about the best way to pay for this course? Ask your manager at work if they’ll expense it. They won’t have to pay the large fees of traditional classroom learning or have to cover your absence for a week. They get huge value from this investment in your future.
When you’re done with the course, you’ll have truly mastered BGP. I’m excited to share all of my knowledge with you.
Join me on this journey to turbocharging your career!