From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 15:57:52 GMT-3
At 2:00 PM -0400 10/11/02, Ccieyet2b@aol.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Recently, relatively, a number of new features have been added to IOS support
>of BGP. These include ORF, Multiprotocol extensions for Multicast, Route
>Refresh and probably others that I'm not yet familiar with.
>
>Without anyone violating the NDA, I'm wondering how likely it is for one to
>find the ccie lab covering these new topics? Given a limited amount of time,
>would my time and effort be better spent on other topics such as QOS which I
>understand is being more emphasized of late.
>
>Jim
Without going commercial, I've been researching this for an upcoming
tutorial. The motivation for a lot of these new features is MPLS
VPNs. The more we expect to see those, the more we will see things
such as ORF and Graceful Restart.
I'll freely admit some of these are pretty much bleeding edge. There
are actually three Internet Drafts dealing with ORF, one using prefix
filters, one using AS paths, and one using communities. The Working
Group intention is to let these develop separately, but then
harmonize them into one draft to advance to RFC. So, there's every
likelihood we are seeing early implementations that may change in
detail.
So the question, IMNSHO, is to look at the CCIE lab tracks in
question and try to think how much MPLS VPN will be in them.
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