Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition

Chapter 6. Tuning BGP Capabilities

This chapter covers the following key topics:

• Building peer sessions— A walk-through of the negotiation process between BGP and its neighbors.

• Sources of routing updates— The source and method by which routes are injected into BGP have implications for the accuracy and stability of routing information.

• Overlapping protocols: backdoors— When alternative routes into and out of a network are offered by overlapping protocols, a method of ranking them by preference is available.

• The routing process simplified— The decision model by which BGP receives, filters, selects for usage, and advertises routes, as a continuous process.

• Controlling BGP routes— At the core of BGP is a collection of attributes that ...