Peter Sievers
Peter is a Systems Engineer at Arista Networks. He has over 20 years of experience in various operations, engineering and consulting positions with Data Centers, Service Providers and Networking Hardware/Software Vendors.
During his professional development he have worked with various BGP implementations and was able to build up relevant experience.
Session
Want to perform the bgp handshake in real life based on a realistic topology? We got you covered ... in this workshop for intermediates we will dive into some network basics of bgp driven networks and also explore route filtering best practices (mainly for the DfZ = default free zone).
After some theory every attendee will receive one network node to configure. The fellow participants will be your peers. You will depend on the peers to reach your goals.
Teams work together in small groups. One group either jointly manages an AS consisting of 3 routers and a customer downlink router or the IXP infrastructure based on EVPN with additional route server. Troubleshooting takes place across groups in order to verify the corresponding availability within the lab topology.
Warning: You will have to socialise with the peers around you!
Topics Covered:
* Running BGP (iBGP and eBGP)
* BGP Attributes
* BGP & Routing Security
* Filtering
* BGP Tips & Tricks
Technologies Covered:
IPv4 and IPv6, IS-IS, iBGP, eBGP, BGP Scaling, BGP Policies,
BGP Best Practices, BGP Configuration Essentials, IXP Design.
Pre-requisites:
Participants must have technical hands on experience of routers.
Network Fundamentals, user level UNIX and maybe some system administration,
some use of network design preferably TCP/IP-based is also helpful.
Ideally, you should already have some experience with EOS or a comparable CLI.