Free Cisco Lab

Many of my readers have posted that Cisco’s Packet Tracer does not support BGP (Border Gateway Protocol). This is not the case, in the latest version of Packet Tracer 5.3.2 there is limited support for BGP. The most limiting lack in support is Internal BGP (iBGP) and is currently not supported in the latest version of Packet Tracer. This does not allow the user to create neighbors between routers within the same autonomous systems. Although even with this limitation there is sufficient support to allow the CCNA, CCNP student to gain an understanding of this complex routing protocol and to learn how to use the following supported command within Packet tracer.

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In this free cisco GNS3 lab you will learn to configure BGP confederation as a method to use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to subdivide a single autonomous system (AS) into multiple internal sub-AS’s, yet still advertise as a single AS to external peers therefore reducing the IBGP mesh size.

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Are you ready for another head buster lab scenario, well this lab should provide you with all the challenge of a real CCIE lab exam. If you can complete this lab within the 8.5 hours allowed for, you may be ready for the real thing.

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In the following Free Cisco Lab Scenario you will configure BGP over 15 routers in 8 AS, as well as multiple route reflectors in multiple clusters as shown in the network diagram. This is a very advanced lab requiring an advanced knowledge of routing and routing protocols namely BGP, therefore little instructions are provided but I have provided the GNS3 configuration.

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