Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, and the most scalable of all routing protocols. It is a 5-day boot camp. BGP is the routing protocol of the global Internet, as well as for Service Provider private networks. BGP has expanded upon its original purpose of carrying Internet reachability information, and can now carry routes for Multicast, IPv6, VPNs, and a variety of other data.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) (BGP and OSPF)

Schedule
- T88362
- 5 days
- 08/24/2026 - 08/28/2026*
- 9:00 AM
- (GMT -07:00) Pacific Daylight Time
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Description
Prerequisites
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CCNP or equivalent knowledge
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The students MUST have CCNP level knowledge of OSPF
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THIS IS NOT FOR STUDENTS THAT HAVE NO OSPF OR ROUTING KNOWLEDGE
Outline
Course Outline
BGP
DA-1 Examining the BGP Table
DA-2 BGP Using the Correct TTL
DA-3 BGP Fast-External-Fallover & Fall-over
DA-4 BGP Default Routes Injection
DA-5 BGP Dynamic Peering
DA-6 BGP Route-Reflectors
DA-7 BGP Advertising Routes in a RR Environment
DA-8 BGP Aggregation
DA-9 BGP Standard Communities
DA-10 BGP Well-Known Communities
DA-11 BGP Cost Pre-Bestpath. Is the Weight attribute the BEST on Cisco devices?
DA-12 BGP Regular Expression
DA-13 BGP ORF
DA-14 BGP Local-as, No-prepend, Replace-as, and Dual-as
DA-15 BGP Backdoor
DA-16 BGP Load Balancing Scenario I
DA-17 BGP Multipathing - I
DA-18 BGP Multipathing - II
DA-19 BGP Multipathing - III
DA-20 BGP Multipathing - IV
DA-21 BGP Multipathing - V
DA-22 BGP Multipath - VI
DA-23 BGP Multipath - VII
DA-24 BGP Maxas-Limit, and Max-Prefix
DA-25 Remove-Private-AS I
DA-26 Remove-Private-AS II
DA-27 Remove-Private-AS III
DA-28 Remove-Private-AS IV
DA-29 Remove-Private-AS V
DA-30 Route Servers and Policies
DA-31 BGP Suppress-inactive
DA-32 BGP 007 Filtering
DA-33 Basic BGP Filtering
DA-34 BGP New Attribute “AIGP”
DA-35 BGP Automatic-tag, AS-path Tag, and Table-map
OSPF:
Overview:
- Areas
- Router’s Role/Type
- Virtual-links
- The Purpose
- Configuration and how it’s formed
- Comparing a Virtual-link to a GRE Tunnel
- DA-1 OSPF-Virtual-Link
- OSPF and BGP RID. BGP Synchronization DA-2 BGP and OSPF Router ID
DA-3 OSPF Split-horizon
DA-4 Capability Transit
LSAs:
- An in-depth lecture with all hands-on Directed Activities on the following LSAs:
Type-1, Type-2, Type-3, Type-4, Type-5, Type-6, Type-7
DA-5 Drawing the Topology based on the Database
DA-6 LSA-4-5 Scenario
Directed Activity:
Running through 10 or more scenarios to examine all LSAs, and configuring and testing RFC 3101, RFC 1587, RFC 2328, RFC 1583, RFC 5185. DA-7 to DA-15
Network Types:
- Broadcast
- Non-broadcast
- Point-to-Point
- Point-to-Multipoint
- Point-to-Multipoint Non-broadcast
- LOOPBACK
DA-16 OSPF Network Type Mismatch
DA-17 OSPF Point-to-Multipoint Network Types with Redistribution
Area Types:
- Stub
- Totally-Stubby
- NSSA
Summarization:
- Internal
- External
Authentication:
- RFC 2328
- RFC 5709
Default-Route Injection in OSPF
OSPF Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) DA-18
OSPF BFD DA-19
OSPF Filtering DA#20
OSPF Filtering DA#21
OSPF Filtering DA#22
OSPF FRR DA-23