BGP Operations & Security
Dates: 04th May 2021
Location: Online
Target Audience
- Technical staff who are now building or operating a service provider network with international and/or multi-provider connectivity, or considering participation at an Internet Exchange point.
Synopsis
- Internet Routing is based on BGP and it is also referring as the policy-based protocol. Due to of its leaky nature the BGP mishaps are very common and frighteningly very easy.
- This workshop will look at the Best Current Practices - BCPs of how to secure the BGP, and the polices that would help in securing the network reachability.
Pre-requisites
- It is assumed that the workshop participants have a working knowledge of an OSPF/IS-IS and BGP fundamentals, along with know how to use a router command line interface.
- This workshop is not an introduction. The lab exercises use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.
- Recommended Pre-req Course APNIC Academy Routing Fundamentals
- Recommended Pre-req Course APNIC Academy Deploying BGP (cisco)
Other Requirements
- Hardware: Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with administrative access.
- Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client (PuTTy)
- Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org
Workshop topics
- BGP Policy Control
- BGP Operations and Security best practices
Workshop Items
- Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
- Instructors: Muhammad Yasir Shamim (APNIC), Etuate Cocker (APNIC Community Trainer)