642-691 BGP+MPLS Difference between Router Descriptor (RD) and Route Target (RT) Studying towards the SPEDGE (great word Cisco!) tonight and couldn't quite define exactly Route Descriptors and Route Targets. So lets try First off it might be important (and obvious) to note both RT
642-691 BGP+MPLS %BGP-4-VPNV4NH_MASK and OSPF advertising loopback as /32 by default Recently when doing some MPLS VPN lab work I came across the error %BGP-4-VPNV4NH_MASK: Nexthop 4.4.4.4 may not be reachable from neigbor 2.2.2.2 - not /32
642-691 BGP+MPLS BGP Route Reflectors (GNS3 lab) One problem of having a large number of routers running IBGP with each other in a full mesh is the volume of IBGP connections needed. The formula to see the number of connections
642-691 BGP Confederations (GNS3 Lab) Similar to using route reflectors confederations are usually used to reduce the amount of IBGP connections needed for a full mesh. They do this by splitting an AS into multiple sub ASs. In
642-691 BGP+MPLS Changing MED value in BGP (GNS3 lab) BGP Multiexit Discriminator (MED orMULTI_EXIT_DISC) is an optional nontransative attribute (Type code Value 4). It is usually used to exchange info about a preffered to external BGP neighbours. MED is passed
642-691 BGP Attributes When BGP sends an UPDATE packet to a peer it sends path attributes associated with the prefix. These path attributes are then used by BGP to pick the best route to a destination.