BGP Zero to Hero – by Russ White

Master the Border Gateway Protocol from the ground up, with depth, clarity, and real-world design perspective.

This course is your complete guide to BGP, taught by one of the industry's most respected experts, Russ White. Whether you're preparing for certifications or working on real production networks, this course takes you from foundational knowledge to advanced design-level understanding.

???? What You’ll Learn:

• Why BGP is the foundation of inter-domain routing

• BGP Autonomous System concepts and numbering

• IBGP vs. EBGP peering – and how to build scalable BGP topologies

• Peering security and protection mechanisms

• BGP Policy design using route-maps, prefix-lists, and communities

• Path selection and BGP attributes (MED, Local Pref, AS Path, etc.)

• BGP timers and tuning for performance

• Convergence behavior and how to optimize it

• Design trade-offs in BGP architectures

The course doesn’t just show you how BGP works, it explains why it works that way, and what that means for design, scalability, stability, and security.

Whether you're an engineer aiming to become a BGP expert or a network designer looking to build robust Internet-scale architectures, BGP Zero to Hero is the deep, structured training you need.

Note: The labs in this course are built using ContainerLab, an open-source network emulator that runs topologies with containers.

Russ White chose ContainerLab to keep everything open and accessible.

We’ve also included the lab configs as PDF files in the downloadable content — easy to follow, even without running the labs.