BGP Neighbor states

  • idle:
    • BGP is down or waiting next retry
  • Connect:
    • The BGP is waiting for the TCP connection to be completed
  • Active:
    • The TCP Connection failed, Connect-retry timer running, listening for incoming TCP Connections
  • Opensent:
    • The TCP connection exists and a BGP Open Message as been send.
    • The matching Open Message has not yet been received
  • Openconfirm:
    • Open Message has been send and received
  • Established:
    • All neighbor parameters match
    • Relationship works
    • Peers can exchange update messages

eBGP Update-source & multihop

  • Local router find the outgoing interface for the neighbor
  • the IP of the outgoing interface is used as the source IP by default.
  • With one link a failure in that link can lose the neighborship.
    •  configure two neighbor commands
    • Use the loopback interfaces as TCP endpoints
  • Loopback links between two AS might miss the route to the peer’s loopback
    • fixed with multihop (TTL=255 instead of TTL=1).

      • create routes between peers to reach loopback address.
      • configure update-source so the right source-ip is used.
R10#(config)router bgp 10
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 remote-as 20
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 ebgp-multihop
R10#(config-router)neighbor 20.20.20.20 update-source loopback0

R20#(config)router bgp 20
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 remote-as 10
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 ebgp-multihop
R20#(config-router)neighbor 10.10.10.10 update-source loopback0

iBGP – eBGP

 

eBGPiBGP
External BGPInternal BGP
NeighborBetween differnet ASWithin the same AS
Route updatesRoutes are send to eBGP peers by defaultRoutes are not send to BGP peers by default
AS path additionyesno
Administrative distance20200
TopologyDoes not require a full meshFull mesh or Route reflectors or Confedoration
Loop Preventionas-pathBGP split horizon

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BGP

  • eBGP ad  20
  • iBGP  ad 200
  • BGP uses TCP port 179
  • Designed as an Exterior gateway Protocol.

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Policy Based Routing

  • PBR intercepts packets before regular routing
  • PBR overwrites the router’s natural destination
  • PBR is tied to route-maps
    • Define the match criteria
    • Define the action for the packets
  •  Packet forwarding
    • Outgoing interface
    • IP Next-Hop

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IP SLA

  • Can be used by various
    • PBR
    • Static route
    • HSRP
  • Feature to monitor destination
    • Cpu creates data to monitor
    • Operations
      • ICMP, RTP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP
    • Different operations can be monitored at the same time
  • The receiver can be a router or host
    • Might be configured as a SLA Responder

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Route Redistribution and Loops

  • One link within each routing domain
  • Working routing config for each routing domain
  • Redistribution configuration between routing protocols
    • Mutual redistribution
    • Bi-directional redistribution

Redistribution into EIGRP

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OSPF Stub Areas

There are four types of stub areas

  • stub
  • totally-stubby
  • not-so-stubby areas (NSSA)
  • totally not-so-stubby areas
  • All stub areas do not allow Type 5 (external) LSAs (ABR always filters them)
  • For the totally stub areas the ABR filters the Type 3 LSAs.

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OSPF Default Routing

  • Create a default route into a specific area
  • Create a default route into the entire OSPF domain
  • Default-information originate
    • Creates a default route into OSPF, external Type 2 route, using a Type 5 LSA with metric 20
    • default-information originate (always) metric 30 metric-type 1 route-map NAME

      • Default metric 20
      • Default metric-type 2
        • metric-type 1 cost can be changed
        • metric-type 2 cost can’t be changed
    • The metric-type defines LSA is Type 1 External or Type 2 External (default)
    • Route-map is used for tracking networks. If Route-map condition is met, default route is advertized.

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OSPF Route Filtering and Summarization

OSPF Route filtering between areas

  • Filtering prevents the creation of LSAs.
  • LSDB’s have to be the same for all routers ifnot SPF logic will fail
  • OSPF can filter the originiation of LSA between areas
  • Type 3 LSAs are filtered prior to origination ABR
      • With multiple ABRs filtering should be done on both.
      • ospf# area number prefix-list prefix name in|out
        • In: IOS filters routes comming in to that area
        • out: IOS filters routes comming out of that area
    ip prefix-list NAME seq 5 deny 10.10.10.0/24 le 32
    ip prefix-list NAME seq 10 permit 0.0.0.0/0 le 32
    
    R1#(config-router)#area 1 filter-list prefix NAME in
    R1#show ip ospf database summary self-originate

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