Build effective BGP policies with Cisco IOS

This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' BGP Design and Implementation, shows you how to use Cisco IOS to build complex and effective BGP policies.

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is system routing protocol used to exchange routing information for the Internet and is the protocol Internet service providers (ISP) use to exchange customer and ISP routes. The BGP protocol provides a list of attributes through which you can set policies. Cisco IOS software expands and enhances what is available with additional tools.

This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' BGP Design and Implementation, examines these tools and shows you how to use them to build complex and effective BGP policies. The chapter covers the following topics:

• Policy control techniques
• Conditional advertisement
• Aggregation and deaggregation
• Local AS
• QoS policy propagation
• BGP policy accounting
• Case study: AS integration via the Local AS

Title: BGP Design and Implementation
ISBN: 1587051095
Published: December, 2003
Authors: Randy Zhang and Micah Bartell
Chapter: Chapter 4: Effective BGP Policy Control
Published by Cisco Press

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