BGP

BGP routing protocol examples

BGP_custom-config.imn

In this example "Custom Config" feature is used for BGP router's configuration.

Double click on router or select "Configure" from right-click popup menu:

• Custom startup config is "Enabled"
• Selected custom config is "conf1"
• Click on "Editor" button

(configuration is taken from: "Configuring and Testing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) on Basis of Cisco Hardware and Linux Gentoo with Quagga Package (Zebra)": http://hosteddocs.ittoolbox.com/ke032707.pdf)

BGP-Anycast.imn

This is the example of BGP router configuration inserted directly in .imn file.

vi BGP-Anycast.imn

In this example BGP Anycast routing is demonstrated:

• IP address 8.8.8.8 is assigned to WEB1 and WEB2.
• Client1 is redirected to WEB1 and Client2 is redirected to WEB2.
• If the link between Backbone1 and DC2 is configured to have BER=1, than after some time the traffic from Client2 is redirected to WEB1.