# BGP Labs: Improvements (September 2024)

DevFeed: [BGP Labs: Improvements (September 2024)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bgp-labs-improvements-september-2024-11077.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/10/bgp-labs-improvements/>)

Published: 2024-10-04T05:59:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>)

Tags: [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [linux-kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux-kernel.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [validation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/validation.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes improvements to BGP lab exercises, including added validation, migration to a newer validation plugin architecture, redesigned labs that no longer depend on IBGP-advertised loopback prefixes, and support for the latest FRRouting release. It also reports fixes for missing FRRouting daemons in several labs, while noting that the TCP-AO lab may still depend on Linux kernel support.

## Source excerpt

I spent a few days in a beautiful place with suboptimal Internet connectivity. The only thing I could do whenever I got bored (without waiting for the Internet gnomes to hand-carry the packets across the mountain passes) was to fix the BGP labs on a Ubuntu VM running on my MacBook Air (hint: it all works). Big things first. I added validation to these labs: MD5 Passwords and GTSM Use BGP Timers and BFD to Speed Up BGP Convergence BGP Route Aggregation EBGP Sessions over IPv6 LLA Interfaces Establish an IBGP Session Build a Transit Network with IBGP Use BGP Route Reflectors Using No-Export Community to Filter Transit Routes Read more ...