BKNIX BGP/IXP Workshop
Dates: 20-23 April, 2015
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Host: BKNIX
Venue: Sivatel Hotel, Ploen Chit, Bangkok
Workshop description and summary
This four-day workshop is a mix of lectures and hands-on lab work to teach the skills required for participation in the Bangkok Neutral IX.
- BKNIX intro.
- Peering vs Transit, and L2 IXP
- IXP members connection Best practice
- BGP protocol, attributes and policy control
- BGP Best Practices, including Aggregation
- BGP for IXP members (peering with selective member(s)/RS)
- BGP policies (prefix/AS-path/route-map/communities).
- BGP security
- Using BKNIX services including ntp, RS, ixp-manager, and i-root.
- Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
Target audience
Technical staff of network operators who intend to connect to the Bangkok Neutral Internet Exchange Point.
Workshop requirements
This workshop is not an introduction to routing or BGP. Successful completion of a previous BGP Workshop or similar training is recommended.
Workshop participants need to be proficient with a router command line interface, have a good understanding of OSPF or ISIS, as well as experience with using BGP in an operational network.
The labs use Cisco IOS configuration syntax.
Some user-level Unix experience would be advantageous
All participants will need to bring a laptop with WiFi access. A tablet cannot be used for this workshop. The laptop will be used to access the lab network as well as the course materials on the workshop wiki. Participants will work in pairs on the lab exercises.
Class Size
The Workshop can accommodate up to 28 participants, working in groups of two.
Trainers
- Philip Smith (NSRC)
- Andy Linton (NSRC)
- Viraphan Samadi (AIT)
- Kittinan Sriprasert (BKNIX)
- Chatchai Chan-In (BKNIX)