Course Prerequisites and Recommended Reading Prerequisites

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
• RFC1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4

OSPF

• Moy, John T. OSPF Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201634724
• IETG OSPF Working Group Home Page
• 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.
• IETF IS-IS Working Group Home Page
• RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments

MPLS

• Working Group Home Page
• Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture—Draft
• RFC 2702, Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
• RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels