BGP Knowledge Sections.

Aligned to some extent with the CCIE Routing and Switching v4.0 blueprint i managed to make my own knowledge section guide, just to categorize the domains needed to fully learn BGP. This helps me by deviding the knowledge i need to grasp of the protocols and technologies and focus in my weakness or new areas.


-General Concepts 
-BGP neighbor Establishment and neighbor States. 
-Synchronization. 
-BGP Tables. 
-BGP Message Types. 
-BGP attributes.
    -AS-Path Attribute 
    -The Next-Hop Attribute 
    -Origin Attribute. 
    -Local Preference Attribute 
    -Community Attribute. 
    -MED Attribute. 
    -Weight Attribute. 
    -Backdoor.
-BGP Route-Selection Decision Process. 
-Other BGP features.
    -Route Reflection. 
    -Confederation. 
    -Route Flap Dampening.
-BGP Configuration.
   -Peer Groups. 
   -Neighbor Configuration. 
   -Defining Neighbors 
   -Shutting Down a BGP neighbor. 
   -Source IP address Definition. 
   -Neighbor Authentication. 
   -Multihop -Load Balancing. 
   -Next Hop attribute manipulation. 
   -Network Advertisement. 
   -Defining networks to be advertised 
   -auto-summary command. 
   -BGP Filter List 
   -BGP filtering using Prefix Lists 
   -BGP filtering with Route Maps. 
   -Redistribution and Static Routes. 
   -Sync 
   -Resetting BGP sessions. 
     -Hard Reset 
     -Soft Reset 
     -Route Refresh 
  -BGP show and debug commands. 
  -BGP Path Manipulation. 
  -Changing the Weight 
  -Changing Weight using route maps 
  -Setting Local Preference 
  -Changing Local Preference Using Route Maps. 
  -Setting The AS-path. 
  -Setting the MED 
  -Changing the MED with a Route Map.
-Troubleshooting BGP