Fine-tuning BGP Client / Server Relationship

by Nish Vamadevan

Before you read through this post, I assume you have got at least the basic understanding of BGP and how it works. Here are some facts: BGP is a path vector Routing Protocol works on TCP port 179. Neighbor with the lowers IP address will establish the connection to the Remote Peer on TCP port [...]

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BGP Peer Templates

by Nish Vamadevan

I have came across a lot of BGP configurations where there are lot of the configurations can be optimized. But having said that, this is not always the case when the Network is being built gradually. Here is a couple of them, called Peer Session Templates and Peer Policy Templates; which we can use in [...]

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BGP no-export vs local-as

by Nish Vamadevan

This is one of the BGP configuration I have came across on my lab… no-export : This will keep the route inside the confederation, but not to any peers. local-as : This will keep the route inside the AS, but not even to confederation peers. no-export –> local-as –> no-advertise If there is no confederation [...]

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