# BGP Labs: a Year Later

DevFeed: [BGP Labs: a Year Later](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bgp-labs-a-year-later-11034.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/07/bgp-labs-year-later/>)

Published: 2024-07-08T04:57:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Routing (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/routing.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [load-balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancing.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>)

## AI overview

The article reviews progress on a project to revive and expand BGP lab exercises. After completing the original exercises, the author added deployment exercises, routing policy exercises, load-balancing exercises, and challenges covering advanced BGP scenarios. The labs are free and can use various network operating systems, but users may need to build supporting infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

Last summer, I started a long-term project to revive the BGP labs I created in the mid-1990s. I completed the original lab exercises (BGP sessions, IBGP, local preference, MED, communities) in late 2023 but then kept going. This is how far I got in a year: Twenty-six deploy BGP exercises, including advanced settings like AS path manipulations, MD5 passwords and BFD, and new technologies like TCP/AO and interface EBGP sessions. Fifteen BGP routing policies exercises, covering the basic mechanisms as well as dirty tricks like route disaggregation Four load balancing exercises, from EBGP ECMP to BGP Link Bandwidth and BGP Additional Paths. Five challenges for everyone who got bored doing the simple stuff ;) That completes the BGP technologies I wanted to cover. I'll keep adding the challenge labs and advanced scenarios. Here are some ideas; if you have others, please leave a comment. Read more ...