Today I the first thing I learned was the what BGP actually stands for...
and I never realized all these years that I have been misled all along.
BGP = Borghese and Gore Protocol.
You see as the legend goes - it all started back when Paul and some guy
named Al were trying to design the Internet Superhighway...
Seems they needed a Superhighway to help people figure out how to get off
the road to and lay off of global warming or something like that... I get
confused in all of the details... I'm from the old South you know....
Anyway.... It seems that guy named Al wanted it to be called the GBP
protocol but Paul convinced Al that if if BGP were called GBP then people
might get the Internet Superhighway confused with some other crazy acronym
or maybe currency or even BP (as in the fuel company) and so...
Paul won by convincing Al that if people were confused about BGP and BP that
he'd never as in ever get awarded a Nobel Peace Prize if people thought he
were building some sort on Information Highway so that BP could get more
people would use this highway as some sort of vehicle which might somehow
require more fossil fuels... aka more offshore drilling, etc. Not to mention
causing excessive global warming and hell why they were at it people might
even somehow thing ole Al was going to be responsible for the world ending
in 2012 due to all of the above....
Long story short...
We now have BGP aka the Borghese Gore Protocol.
At least that's how I understood it.
Paul got the Protocol, Al got the Prize, and the Internet got a proud set of
parents...
Not sure how these guys broke the news to Vint Cerf about figuring out who
the "Father of the Internet" really was but hey... the Internet is now well
over 18 and so... what can I tell you.
The things we learn in kindergarten... I mean in a CCIE Bootcamp are...
incredible.
Today was an pretty awesome day.
Paul covered BGP for the first half of the day and then Narbik added a few
pointers and moved right into a well formulated discussion on the whiteboard
about the bits an pieces of MPLS.
Both guys did a great job of breaking down the protocols.
Paul caught a few by surprise by throwing in a few jokes, a lot of regular
expressions, and let's not forget prefix-lists... even managed to catch me
off guard with one...
Umm... doesn't happen like that too often.
There's a lot of material available in the pursuit of the CCIE and these
guys brought it home.
Paul was a guest instructor who was re-certifying as a required part of
maintaining his own Master CCIE Cisco 360 Program Instructor status.
He held up rather well considering he was in a room with a 17 students from
a variety of backgrounds and at least 4 were from Cisco's own Advanced
Network Services (TAC) and it appears were quite the experts themselves.
It was a good day.
We had a guest today in the form of Eman Conde from the CCIEFlyer.com who
answered a variety of CCIE career related questions and concerns.
-- Darby Weaver Network Engineer http://www.darbyslogs.blogspot.com darbyweaver_at_yahoo.com Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.netReceived on Wed Apr 27 2011 - 23:10:35 ART
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