[190976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google compute engine private ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Mon Aug 8 22:59:24 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Mansoor Nathani <mnathani.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 02:57:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CACumZjwwpOgZMGg3gtpxM4W03pNnwXjJ7xv6LuXsrtdqB60ziA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The stock 7206 that works with GNS3 also supports a full BGP feed.
-mel beckman
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Mansoor Nathani <mnathani.lists@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>=20
> If you manage to run a CSR1000v on something like Virtualbox, with like 8
> GB of ram, you can actually work with a full IPv4 table.
>=20
> Check this video on how to set up CSR1000v with Virtualbox within GNS3:
>=20
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhkRZRAU7n7E
>=20
>=20
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> The best way to learn BGP is using a network simulator such as GNS3. Thi=
s
>> way you can use industry-standard configurations and experiment with
>> various failover scenarios. Http://gns3.org. There are tons of tutorials
>> out there using Cisco BGP router syntax.
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> -mel beckman
>>=20
>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Lee Fuller <leefuller23@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Hey, first post so sorry if it's misguided. I'm curious about the BGP
>>> implementation in Google compute engine that allows you to define routi=
ng
>>> policy using private ASN numbers. How similar is it in terms of learnin=
g
>>> about BGP as a broader concept, or is it all smoke and mirrors?
>>>=20
>>> I'm not in a position where iBGP would benefit me in any other context
>> than
>>> learning so I'm keen not to bother if it's too abstracted from a real
>> world
>>> scenario.
>>>=20
>>> Lee Fuller (mobile)
>>>=20
>>> PGP Fingerprint: 4ACAEBA4B9EE1B3A075034302D5C3D050E6ED55A
>>=20
