So I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting networks from using firewire between two computers, up to a pix sitting in front of 100 machines. However, I haven't really dealt much with BGP routing.
It's not the most complicated thing in the world...I mean it's smart routing, designed to take the smartest route based on location, congestion etc...
The terminology and the back end mechanics are what I haven't yet grasped. When dealing with bgp through the internet, not on a lan...How does everything work from announcing these routes from the customer's router, to the carriers accepting them. And how are those advertised across the internet? The local preference helps dictate the route taken, but does that only hold within your internet provider? and what if you have multiple connections with various providers? How are ASN's involved?
Does anyone have just a simple sentence that will click everything I know together and have it make complete sense? I guess that's a stupid question but I think the simple explination will put it together for me.
Thanks for your help
It's not the most complicated thing in the world...I mean it's smart routing, designed to take the smartest route based on location, congestion etc...
The terminology and the back end mechanics are what I haven't yet grasped. When dealing with bgp through the internet, not on a lan...How does everything work from announcing these routes from the customer's router, to the carriers accepting them. And how are those advertised across the internet? The local preference helps dictate the route taken, but does that only hold within your internet provider? and what if you have multiple connections with various providers? How are ASN's involved?
Does anyone have just a simple sentence that will click everything I know together and have it make complete sense? I guess that's a stupid question but I think the simple explination will put it together for me.
Thanks for your help
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