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Table of Contents
1 Goals...............................................................................................2
2 Background.................................................................................... 2
3 Introduction....................................................................................2
4 Mapping the network..................................................................... 2
5 Designing a new network............................................................... 3
6 Roll-out!.......................................................................................... 3
7 Clean up......................................................................................... 4
8 References......................................................................................4

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1 Goals
The goal of this lab is to give you a deeper understanding of IBGP
with specific attention given to route reflectors. You will also have
to work as a team to solve routing issues in a medium network.

You should have read the course literature (lecture notes, RFC
pages and course book) about route reflectors in BGP. Extra
material from vendors published on the web are also useful.

2 Background
Your task in this lab is to solve realistic routing issues in a medium
scale network running iBGP, eBGP and an IGP. You will be handed
a running network containing 16 routers.

3 Introduction
As a part of a buyout your NOC have been handed the
responsibility of the network of a Swedish ISP. This ISP has four
primary locations: Malm, Gteborg, Stockholm and Kiruna. Part of
the reason the ISP went out of business was their failure to follow
QoS demands and several BGP failures causing downtime. They
recently implemented Route Reflectors in an attempt to solve the
network issues. Your task is to get the network running optimally.
You have four groups, each with responsibility for one regional
group of routers and set of prefixes, but you will have to cooperate
tightly with the other groups.

You should not change the configuration of the running network.

4 Mapping the network

Your first task is to create a map of the current network. You need
to both complete a global map of how the physical network is
structured (as the current maps are rather sketchy), check how
your peering is organized and verify how traffic from and to your
customer networks are flowing. Also examine how the traffic to
your transit provider (AS65500) is flowing.

Milestone 1: Create a network map

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5 Designing a new network

For cost reasons we can not redesign the physical layout of the
network. So we will have to create a new logical network design.
We will have the following design criteria for the network:

Redundancy: Failure of one router should not cause network

outage beyond directly connected customers.
Optimality: All routing should be optimal. Under no
circumstances should packets take a detour.
Minimal iBGP: We want a minimal number of iBGP peering in
the network
Minimal downtime: The redesign of the network should cause
as little downtime as possible for your customers.

Now we need to plan the network upgrade. Make sure you have a
complete plan of the upgrade. It should contain:

The network design

A roll-out plan for the new network, including time allocation
Size of the expected outage
Any other issues, for example eBGP flapping, you expect

Verify the plan with your lab assistants.

Milestone 2: Plan a new network.

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6 Roll-out!
Complete your roll-out of the new network. Verify that you have
completed all the previously mentioned design criteria and make
sure you can answer the following questions after the roll-out:

Did your roll-out follow the plan?

Did you encounter any unexpected issues?
How much downtime did your customers gets?

This is usually called a Flag day solution.

Milestone 3: Roll out.

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7 Clean up
To reset the machines to their initial state, follow the following
steps for all routers.

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1. Reset the configuration by loading (using override) the

labconf configuration.
2. Disconnect the cables and ensure the equipment is in the
same state (or better) as when you started.
3. Reboot your workstations.

8 References
[1] KTHNOC BGP Case studies tutorial
[2] KTHNOC BGP related commands
[3] KTHNOC Router lab Netmap - Topology 2