Bgp: Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol (Paperback)

1. The Internet, Routing, and BGP
Topology of the Internet
TCP/IP Design Philosophy
Routing Protocols
Multihoming

2. IP Addressing and the BGP Protocol
IP Addresses
Interdomain Routing History
The BGP Protocol
Multiprotocol BGP
Interior Routing Protocols

3. Physical Design Considerations
Availability
Selecting ISPs
Bandwidth
Router Hardware
Failure Risks
Building a Wide Area Network
Network Topology Design

4. IP Address Space and AS Numbers
The Different Types of Address Space
Requesting Address Space
Renumbering IP Addresses
The AS Number
Routing Registries
Routing Policy Specification Language

5. Getting Started with BGP
Enabling BGP
Monitoring BGP
Clearing BGP Sessions
Filtering Routes
Internal BGP
The Internal Network
Minimizing the Impact of Link Failures
eBGP Multihop

6. Traffic Engineering
Knowing Which Route Is Best
Route Maps
Setting the Local Preference
Manipulating Inbound AS Paths
Inbound Communities
BGP Load Balancing
Traffic Engineering for Incoming Traffic
Setting the MED
Announcing More Specific Routes
Queuing, Traffic Shaping, and Policing

7. Security and Integrity of the Network
Passwords and Security
Software
Protecting BGP
Denial-of-Service Attacks

8. Day-to-Day Operation of the Network
The Network Operations Center
NOC Hardware Facilities
SNMP Management
Router Names
General IP Network Management

9. When Things Start to Go Down: Troubleshooting
Keeping a Clear Head
Managing the Troubleshooting Process
Dealing with Service Providers
Physical and Datalink Layer Problems
Routing and Reachability Problems
Black Holes
DNS Problems

10. BGP in Larger Networks
Peer Groups
Using Loopback Addresses for iBGP
iBGP Scaling
Dampening Route Flaps
OSPF as the IGP
Traffic Engineering in the Internal Network
Network Partitions

11. Providing Transit Services
Route Filters
Communities
Anti-DoS Measures
Customers with Backup Connections
Providing IPv6 and Multicast

12. Interconnecting with Other Networks
Peering
Internet Exchanges, NAPs, and MAEs
Connecting to an Internet Exchange
Connecting to More Exchange Points
Rejecting Unwanted Traffic
IX Subnet Problems
Talking to Other Network Operators
Exchange Point Future

A. Cisco Configuration Basics

B. Binary Logic, Netmasks, and Prefixes

C. Notes on the IPv4 Address Space