While there are no official course prerequisites, attendees of all Juniper Networks technical education courses are expected to have general familiarity with topics in the following areas:
- TCP/IP basics
- Link-state routing protocols, including a familiarity with either OSPF or IS-IS
- Operation of BGP4 and knowledge of the BGP4 mandatory attributes
- General interdomain routing issues
While not required, familiarity with the command-line interface of a routing platform or UNIX system is helpful.
Recomended Reading
The following references might be useful in preparing for your classes:
General
- Doyle, Jeff. CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP Cisco Systems. ISBN: 1578700418
- Perlman, Radia. Interconnections, 2rd Ed. Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201634481
BGP
- Stewart, John W. BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201379511
- Halabi, Bassam. Internet Routing Architectures Cisco Press, April 1996. ISBN: 1562056522
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RFC1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4
OSPF
- Moy, John T. OSPF Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201634724
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IETG OSPF Working Group Home Page
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RFC2328, OSPF Version 2
IS-IS
- Intermediate System to Intermediate System Intra-Domain Routing Exchange Protocol for Use in Conjunction with the Protocol for Providing the Connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473), ISO 10589, February 1990.
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IETF IS-IS Working Group Home Page
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RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
MPLS
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Working Group Home Page
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Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture—Draft
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RFC 2702, Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
