BGP in my head

Hi everyoone.
I'm looking for a recommendation on reading material.
I have to learn BGP really fast. I'm a CCNA and I manage a network but I have never "played" with BGP, I will probably manage a multihomed environment and I will have to configure and maintain BGP.
Any recommendation on books with good examples/cases ?
Thanks

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shodown

Gogousa wrote: »

Hi everyoone.
I'm looking for a recommendation on reading material.
I have to learn BGP really fast. I'm a CCNA and I manage a network but I have never "played" with BGP, I will probably manage a multihomed environment and I will have to configure and maintain BGP.
Any recommendation on books with good examples/cases ?
Thanks

Download GNS3 or Dynamips

Lots of free stuff on Cisco's site. Also Redistrubution, Route Maps, and route filters. Take it chunks at a time.

ColbyG

Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)

Internet Routing Architectures

BGP

Three great BGP books.

Bosefus

I've seen this book mentioned in other threads to,

Amazon.com: BGP Design and Implementation (0619472051092): Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell: Books

Little more recent.

cisco_trooper

Bosefus wrote: »

I've seen this book mentioned in other threads to,

Amazon.com: BGP Design and Implementation (0619472051092): Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell: Books

Little more recent.

Yeah, that's the ONE book I can't seem to find on Safari. REALLY irritating, since it is more recent than the Internet Routing Architectures book.

Turgon

Gogousa wrote: »

Hi everyoone.
I'm looking for a recommendation on reading material.
I have to learn BGP really fast. I'm a CCNA and I manage a network but I have never "played" with BGP, I will probably manage a multihomed environment and I will have to configure and maintain BGP.
Any recommendation on books with good examples/cases ?
Thanks

Cisco website has many examples of this sort of thing. Also invest in Jeff Doyle Routing TCP/IP Vol II which has multihomed examples. Tread carefully with BGP, it's a study in itself. Work closely with your colleagues and the techs at the ISP before you change anything. You
will need to do a lot of reading and spend time labbing things up.

Gogousa

thanks everyone for the advice.
I will definitely read a lot before I touch anything.

APA

BGP Design & Implementation
Internet Routing Architectures
BGP-4 Configuration handbook

Routing TCP\IP Vol1 & Vol2

That's what I used to study when I was hitting up the BGP exam for CCIP..... alot of theory to take in but well worth the time and effort!