- Multiple path attributes to determine the best path for a certain prefix.
- When no path attributes are set, BGP uses the AS_PATH to determine the best route.
- Shortest AS path wins
- AS_SEQ is the component of the AS_PATH attribute.
- 10.10.10.0/24 20 10
- AS-SEQ (in order)
- 10.10.10.0/24 20 10
- With summarization:
- 10.10.0.0/16 20 10 { 1 2 5 4 3 }
- Prefix AS-PATH AS-SEQ { AS-SET }
- AS-SET are not in order
- Prevents Routing loops.
- If a BGP router received an update with it’s own AS#, it indicates a loop.
- If a BGP router received an update with it’s own AS#, it drops the route.
BGP Message types
BGP message types
New relation between two BGP peers:
- Open
- type 1
- Version4 (ipv4), AS#, Hold time, Router-iD, parameters.
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.
- fixed with multihop (TTL=255 instead of TTL=1).
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
eBGP | iBGP | |
---|---|---|
External BGP | Internal BGP | |
Neighbor | Between differnet AS | Within the same AS |
Route updates | Routes are send to eBGP peers by default | Routes are not send to BGP peers by default |
AS path addition | yes | no |
Administrative distance | 20 | 200 |
Topology | Does not require a full mesh | Full mesh or Route reflectors or Confedoration |
Loop Prevention | as-path | BGP split horizon |
BGP
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
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
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
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.