BGP Fundamentals

If there’s one thing that trips up engineers new to BGP, it’s the difference between eBGP and iBGP. Not because the concept is hard, but because the implications are sneaky. The sessions look the same. The commands are almost identical. But the behavior is different enough to absolutely destroy a network if you’re not paying

Someone on your team suggested BGP. Or you read an article. Or you watched a conference talk where the speaker made it sound like BGP was the answer to everything. And now you’re wondering if your network actually needs it. For most networks, the answer is still no That’s not a knock on BGP, it