Practical BGP

Chapter 3. Scaling the Enterprise Using BGP

While most network engineers think of BGP only in the context of the Internet or large-scale Internet service providers, BGP is commonly used to scale large and mid-sized enterprise networks as well. In fact, BGP may be the perfect fit in an organization where there are multiple groups or entities responsible for managing different pieces of the network, and the policies of each group are different or there are requirements for some administrative separation between each organization's routing domains. In this chapter, we'll discuss the use of BGP in large enterprise networks; where it fits in, how to connect an enterprise network using BGP to external networks, and how to use AS Confederations for ...