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Illustrated
Edition: 1
Author: Iljitsch Van Beijnum
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Release Date: 2002-09-11
ISBN-10: 0596002548
ISBN-13: 9780596002541
List Price: $39.95
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol used to exchange routing information across the Internet. It makes it possible for ISPs to connect to each other and for end-users to connect to more than one ISP. BGP is the only protocol that is designed to deal with a network of the Internet's size, and the only protocol that can deal well with having multiple connections to unrelated routing domains. This book is a guide to all aspects of BGP: the protocol, its configuration and operation in an Internet environment, and how to troubleshoot it. The book also describes how to secure BGP, and how BGP can be used as a tool in combating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Although the examples throughout this book are for Cisco routers, the techniques discussed can be applied to any BGP-capable router. BGP is for anyone interested in creating reliable connectivity to the Internet.
Excellent introductory text and reference on BGP
| Customer Rating: | Whether you're a network architect, engineer, operator/technician this book will provide valuable insight into BGP for your particular purpose. This book is mostly practical and doesn't delve much into the intricate details of BGP/distance-vector routing such as explanation of algorithms, but rather focuses on the setup, operation, and troubleshooting of BGP and related networking concepts.
The first four chapters briefly cover TCP/IP, routing protocols, IP addressing with respect to BGP, etc. I found the chapter on IP addressing most useful, since it's not quite clear how the allocations work with the various governing organizations (IANA, ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc.) that manage the IP address allocations and deal with the depletion of IP address space.
The meat of the book is in the chapters on configuring BGP and Traffic Engineer, both which were an excellent read. A lot of this book can be selectively read, since it can go into detail for large networks which also run an IGP protocol or use route reflectors, which is useful if you're considering extending your network especially in the case of multiple POPs.
The troubleshooting sections provides a mix of common BGP problems along with how to deal with support from various ISPs. There is also a section that explains with how to deal with other NOCs, which I believe is common sense, but needs explanation as many people seem to do the wrong thing and don't get anywhere.
I've had this book for several years now, and I often come back to it to refresh my understanding on certain aspects of BGP and routing. Lastly,
this book is very cisco-centric in configuration of BGP, however I found
the configs useful although I mainly work with Juniper or host-based
implementations of BGP that use different syntax and I had little problem
translating the configs.
Highly recommended and solid book for those that want to understand the practical use of BGP. |
With this book - learning BGP has never been easier
| Customer Rating:  | | For the last year or two I have been searching for a book that would allow me to understand the fundamentals as well as the advanced concepts in BGP. For the last year or two I have grown frustrated with the books from Cisco Press - either the writing would just put your lights out or that there is overwhelming amount of information on packets that would distract if not deter you from trying to focus on learning the protocol. Then this book came along and the author has done an outstanding job in organizing and presenting the materials that would surely keep the junior to senior level network guys interested and best of all the author clearly knows how to explain the BGP concepts in an easier to understand manner. I highly recommend this book for junior to senior network guys who have the desire to learn BGP. Learning BGP has never been easier with this book. |
A terse yet informative discussion of BGP, mainly for pros
| Customer Rating: | Few of us deal with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) on a daily basis. I am not one of those whose network responsibilities include interdomain routing. I bought this book to learn more about the BGP protocol and its security characteristics. Most people fear attacks on the root name servers, as happened in October 2002. BGP, though, could offer another disaster in waiting. When the L0pht hacker group claimed before the Governmental Affairs Committee in May 1998 that it was possible to make the Internet "unusable" in 30 minutes, they were probably referring to resetting TCP sessions between BGP peers. In fact, RFC 2385 was released three months later to address that very threat.
van Beijnum's book addresses the threat and consequences of tearing down BGP sessions, and much more. "BGP" presents an insider's look within the secret group who administer some of the most crucial aspects of Internet infrastructure. Being an outsider, I was not able to digest everything the book offered. I learned some memorable lingo: "the swamp" is the part of the class C address space assigned before Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) was used. Unfortunately, "route flap dampening" was mentioned several times before being explained in chapter 10.
I most enjoyed the chapters on security, traffic engineering, and troubleshooting. van Beijnum presents lots of Cisco IOS configuration samples, and he clearly knows BGP. I could have used some additional introductory sections and would have liked to see Ethereal or similar protocol analysis of BGP messages for reference. In a world dominated by books on LANs, I like seeing books on the WAN. Don't expect "BGP" to hold your hand, however. |
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