The industry's leading resource for Internet routing solutions and scenarios
Explore the functions, attributes, and applications of BGP-4, the de facto interdomain routing protocol, through practical scenarios and configuration examplesLearn the contemporary Internet structure and understand how to evaluate a service provider in dealing with routing and connectivity issuesMaster the addressing techniques--including Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)--that are demanded today to facilitate the Internet's rapid and continuing growthDevelop optimal routing policies--redundancy, traffic balancing, symmetry, and stability--for your networkLearn how to seamlessly integrate your intradomain and interdomain routing and manage large and growing autonomous systems
from the simplest scenarios to complex situations, this books explains everything with a lot of details and examples, showing also how to implement those situations in a Cisco environment... sweet!
The first 8 chapters or so were pretty dry. But the last few chapters did have very good BGP concepts and examples of different configurations. I like how the author used Basic router names and kept using the same routers to make different configurations possible. Thanks Sam!