ATTENTION: CCNPs, CCIE Candidates, ISP Engineers, Datacenter Engineers & Every Network Engineer Who’s Tired Of Guessing During BGP Outages…
FREE BGP Starter Pack
Get the BGP workbook, a ready-to-run EVE-NG OVA, all required network images, and the Save Config files. Everything you need to open the scenario, follow the tasks, configure the routers, and inspect BGP behavior is included.
A Few Of The Strange BGP Behaviors Waiting Inside
- The no route to peer message that appears even though the loopbacks can ping each other and the route is visible in the routing table. (If IOS can reach the peer, what exactly is BGP refusing to accept?)
- The innocent-looking ebgp-multihop 1 command that appears to match the topology perfectly, while the BGP session remains down. (The value looks right. So why doesn’t BGP agree?)
- The tiny change to a single neighbor command that suddenly allows the session to establish. (How can changing one digit produce a completely different result?)
- The reachable neighbor BGP refuses to accept even though the usual connectivity checks show no obvious problem. (What is BGP checking that a successful ping doesn’t tell you?)
- The TTL Security configuration that looks reasonable on both routers but still prevents the neighbor relationship from forming. (Which verification command reveals what the configuration alone doesn’t show?)
- The eBGP session that establishes with a TTL of 1 even though another router is physically sitting between the two peers. (How does the packet reach the other side before its TTL expires?)
- The BGP peering configuration that behaves one way across a normal routed path and another across PPPoE or MPLS. (The neighbor statements look familiar. So what changed underneath them?)
The Starter Pack gives you the environment, files, and guided tasks required to investigate each one.
You’ll configure the scenario, inspect the evidence, make your prediction, and discover why each behavior occurs.
Here’s What You’ll Receive:
- The BGP Workbook - A guided workbook with clear objectives, configuration tasks, verification steps, and explanations. You’ll configure the scenario, inspect the output, and understand what BGP is checking at each stage.
- Ready-to-Run EVE-NG OVA - Import the prepared OVA and open the BGP Lab without building the environment from scratch.
- All Required Network Images - The images needed to run the scenario are already included and prepared for EVE-NG.
- Save Config Files - Load the supplied configurations, start from a known state, and compare your work when the result doesn’t match the workbook. You can also run the configuration first and inspect the BGP behavior before building it yourself.
How to Start:
- Download the BGP Starter Pack.
- Import the EVE-NG OVA.
- Open the workbook and read the first objective.
- Configure the routers and run the verification commands.
- Compare the actual output with the workbook explanation.
- Use the Save Config files to inspect the completed setup or check your own configuration.
- Reset the scenario, change one condition, and run it again.
What Network Engineers Say
I just finished Lab 1 and I really appreciate the quality of the content, which is very relevant to the topic. It includes well-detailed and documented real-world case studies. I had already read the official Cisco SPCOR book, but it left me wanting more. Your lab helped me fully understand the details of establishing BGP sessions.
Thank you very much for the support.
– Fabrice
I have my EVE-NG bare metal server now for a while so i can quickly set up the lab. when configuring bgp neighbors i would use ‘ebgp-multihop’ not realizing that this disabled the connect check. so, i learned something new. you broke down the lab by tasks and each task had its objective, verification and explanation. nicely done.
you also went into MPLS, which i have never used on a BGP router so i learned some more. all in all i think it was informative. nice job…
– Sam
