I second that. I also recommend Routing TCP/IP Volume 2 by Jeff Doyle and Jennifer DeHaven Caroll. Published by Cisco Press.
-Juuso On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Gauthier <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Internet Routing Architectures" by Halabi. > > Eric :) > > > I enjoyed the O'Reilly BGP book - has always served me well. > > > > Jeff Bacon wrote: > > > > >Hi folks - > > > > > >Need to learn BGP. Cisco-focused ok. Looking for the right book to buy. > > >Willing to buy 2-3 to get the right one. > > > > > >I know the very fundamentals of BGP, and conversant in most other IOS > > >topics (route-maps and route redist, weights, IGPs). I can set up a > > >basic neighbor and get IBGP vs EBGP, but need to understand community > > >strings and weighting in BGP-world - used to an EIGRP/OSPF world > > >primarily. > > > > > >Goal is to know how to effectively multi-home our enterprise (3 offices, > > >4 ISPs, we have an assigned ASN and /24), including redirecting inet > > >traffic between the sites over our private WAN links. Not looking to run > > >a tier-1 ISP or anything like that. (Yes, I know it can be a rats-nest > > >to multi-home. My needs are limited; also, it isn't just for the public > > >internet, I also need to present multi-home over BGP to trading partners > > >from our multiple sites over multiple links. I intend to keep the two > > >routing domains separate tho.) > > > > > >So essentially I need "BGP for non-dummies that is also a good reference > > >book". > > > > > >(Yes, I also have the mandatory on-call > > >friend-who-does-this-for-a-living to pester, but he does it for a living > > >for someone else, and I want him to remain a friend. :) ) > > > > > >Thanks, > > >-bacon > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > >https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > >archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > > > -- > > Alex Balashov - Principal > > Evariste Systems > > Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ > > Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 > > Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
