BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Do I need BGP?
Even though you are a network admin or telecom tech, if you are not dealing with something in daily basis, you might need
assist or at least chasing technical information to achieve. Probably BGP, stands for Border Gateway Protocol, is the one of them. There is tons of information about BGP on Internet. Sometimes too much stuff gives you hassle.
This article series will give you essential information to bring your BGP. Not too much technical, but one must know. If you have any questions, visit our support forum page to see any possible answer you are looking for. If not, leave your thought. Let's start with first topic "Do I need BGP?"
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Do I need BGP?
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Own ASN or borrowing one.
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Enough memory for full routes?
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Controlling outbound traffic.
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Controlling inbound traffic.
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Configuring BGP
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - BGP community string from ISP.
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - Verifying BGP routes.
- BGP Tutorial for ISP customers - BGP Troubleshooting.
Last Updated (Wednesday, 06 January 2010 14:42)
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If you have more than two upstream ISP connections, traffic shaping would be one of major consideration for network administrator. Especially, a company has one big pipe with Tier1 ISP and mid-size connection with Tier2 ISP for redundant purpose. Beside, those ISPs don't have any peer connection between. See below picture 1 to better understand. ![]() < Picture 1 > Last Updated (Monday, 27 July 2009 02:54)
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1-2-1. Cisco Single BGP with Metric
Cisco Single BGP with Metric
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2-1-1. Cisco Single BGP with Multi-hop (load-balancing)
Cisco Single BGP with Multi-hop (load-balancing)
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