BGP protocol

[jyuffa]

Can anyone recommend a good book to start on BGP protocol? Thanks.

[ankurbhasin]

HI Friend,

This link will help you with the fundamentals of BGP with some basic practical design examples

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/icsbgp4.htm

This link will guide you with BGP best path selection algorithm

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/459/25.shtml

HTH, if yes please rate the post.

Ankur

[pkhatri]

Hi,

Another one I would recommend is:

BGP4: Inter-domain Routing in the Internet

by John W. Stewart III

It's only about 130 pages and is a great vendor-agnostic introduction to the protocol. You won't learn how to configure BGP with this book but you will learn what the protocol is all about.

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh

[jyuffa]

Paresh,

The book is dated 1998. Is it still OK for current BGP stuff?

Joseph

[jyuffa]

Hi Ankur,

These links to solve some issues. Most of them are advice on "how", but very little on 'why". I need a source to understand more of a logic approach to implement BGP. On details about "how" I'll worry later. Thanks anyway. Are you somewhere in Europe?