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Cisco BGP Configuration & Labs - Basic to Advanced! (Udemy.com)

BGP is the toughest protocol to understand, Implement & troubleshoot, this course will make it EASY to learn Cisco BGP

4.5
947 reviews

Created by: Ashish R

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • Have good understanding of BGP Concepts, will be able to configure BGP and troubleshoot it well
  • You will learn Attributes such as Origin, Weight, Local Preference, MED, Communities.
  • You will learn the options to change the Routing in BGP
  • You will get strong understanding of BGP Table

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  • Length5 hoursshorter than 53% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 59% of them

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Course Description

BGP Configuration is always a big task to do. This Course has made it very easy for students to understand the BGP Concepts. It has many labs which will eventually make you comfortable working with BGP.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is considered a “Path Vector” routing protocol. It is an exterior gateway protocol (EGP) that is used to exchange routing information among routers in different autonomous systems. It is the only protocol which enables Internet to function. So it is very robust and scalable routing Protocol. 

Once BGP peers form a neighbor relationship, they share their full routing table. Afterwards, only changes to the routing table are forwarded to peers.

BGP metric is BGP attributes. It has 3 tables, neighbor table, BGP table and Routing table. The AD (Administrative Distance) for eBGP routes is 20, iBGP is 200. It uses TCP-179. It's Peers use incremental and triggered updates(5 sec interval for IBGP and 30 sec interval for EBGP). It uses AS numbers to keep track of different administrative domains. 1-64511 are public, 64512-65535 are private autonomous numbers.

This course has many Labs which will make you very strong and comfortable in Implementing this protocol in your organization or at your home lab. You will get expertise on Attributes of BGP such as Weight, Local Preference, AS Path, MED , ORGIN and Communities. Since It runs the Internet, so we need a protocol which gives flexibility, that is why BGP is used. Only drawback is that It is extremely slow to converge.

Many more things like Route Reflectors, Confederation are also covered so that you get complete information about this BGP.

Here is the list of topics covered in it

1. Simple BGP Configuration
2. BGP with Non-Connected Neighbors
3. IBGP Vs EBGP
4. How to Read BGP Table
5. Advertising Subnet in BGP
6. Auto Summary in BGP
7. BGP Neighbor Adjacency States
8. BGP Messages
9. Troubleshooting BGP Neighborship
10. Troubleshooting BGP Network Advertisement
11. Weight Attribute
12. Local Preference
13. AS Prepend
14.Origin Code
15. MED (Multi Exit Descriminator)
16. BGP Communities
17. No-Advertise Community
18. No-Export Community
19. BGP prevent Transit AS using Filter List
20. BGP prevent Transit AS using No-Export Community
21. BGP prevent Transit AS using Prefix List
22. BGP prevent Transit AS using Distribute List
23. BGP Peer Group
23. BGP Route-Reflector
24. BGP Confederation

This will definitely be helpful for you. Any feedback- Let me know. I am always available for your help.

I have 5000+ satisfied students from 120+ countries.

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Instructor Details

Ashish R

I’m Ashish, a passionate networking professional with over 17+ years of extensive experience in the field and a CCIE certification in Enterprise Infrastructure (CCIE#68xxx). Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with industry-leading companies,


My technical prowess includes hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies such as SD-WAN (Viptela), Cisco Nexus, ACI, and Cisco ASA firewalls.


On Udemy, I teach a range of networking courses, including CCNA, CCNP, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASA, SD-WAN Viptela, and Cisco ACI. I’m proud to have empowered over 60,000 students worldwide with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the networking domain.


Beyond my technical roles, I am passionate about sharing knowledge and have trained numerous colleagues in various networking technologies. I believe that education is key to personal and professional growth, and I’m excited to bring that same commitment to my online courses here on Udemy.


Join me as we explore the fascinating world of networking together! Whether you’re just starting out or looking to advance your skills, my courses are designed to provide you with practical insights and real-world applications. Let’s connect and elevate your networking knowledge.

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By Ashik Vaghjiyani on 3/27/2026

This was great and very informative. For years I was terrified by BGP due to its complexity. But decided to buy this course to finally tackle it. I am glad I did. I have a much better understanding of how BGP works. Ashish did a great job explaining core BGP concepts in easy fashion and supported it with lab exercises.

By Anonymized User on 9/17/2022

Hi Overall good labs and explanation but few topics are pending. If you can add those it will be great 1) Regular Expressions & their Examples 2) load balancing 3) with default routing 4) Backdoor Routes 5) Remove Private AS 6) Next Hop Address Tracking

By Giovanni Centrella on 8/2/2022

I give 5 stars because the whole course was well organized, divided into small chapters and easy to follow. The different topologies presented helped to have different scenarios and understand the need behind each one. I missed topics about MP-BGP but, I thing this would be part of another topic related e.g. with MPLS.

By Kevin Allamby on 3/7/2022

Great course except difficult to understand what instructor is saying unless you slower video speed otherwise great instruction. One thing I wish is he would use the same topology for some of the labs given only the BGP configuration needed to change. i.e = the no-export and no-adverstise labs

By Bhushan Karbhajan on 7/6/2021

Amazing, Thank you so much Ashish for making it so informative. I will definitely look forward and purchase more of your teachings. I would really like to learn from you. If you read this review please send me personal message so that I can talk to you for guidance on way ahead. Thank You

By Anup Badharudheen on 12/6/2020

Good explanation of concepts with Lab!

By Tomas Tyser on 11/22/2020

This is good course. I like the labs. They will give you experience with the configuration, but you can also get some habits how to troubleshot the BGP.

By Michael Ritchie on 11/13/2020

Nice class! Answered many of the questions I had about BGP configuration and how to interpret the results of the sho ip bgp sum command.

By Jesus Miguel Fernandez Gutierrez on 11/6/2020

Es un buen curso, en el cual puedes aprender el funcionamiento de cada comando aplicado o en su caso reforzar conocimiento, aun que al colocar los subttulos en ingles no concuerdan con lo que se escucha en el audio.

By Nilesh Milind Tadsare on 11/4/2020

I was looking for real time scenario's, more on redistribution, BGP route dampening, BGP backdoor. Also, it would have been great if BGP load balancing can be shown with two different ISP's. Would like to see advanced BGP commands such as show ip bgp neighbors X.X.X.X received-routes etc.

By Anonymized User on 10/4/2020

I was looking for real time scenario's, more on redistribution, BGP route dampening, BGP backdoor. Also, it would have been great if BGP load balancing can be shown with two different ISP's. Would like to see advanced BGP commands such as show ip bgp neighbors X.X.X.X received-routes etc.

By Krutibasa Majhi on 9/27/2020

Many topics are missing like , Allow AS feature , Local -AS in community attributes, BGP backdoor.

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