BGP Design and Implementation

Chapter 6. Internet Connectivity for Enterprise Networks

This chapter discusses various aspects of connecting to the Internet:

• Determining what information to accept from upstream providers

• Multihoming

• Route filtering

• Load balancing

• Additional connectivity concerns

• Case study: load balancing in a multihoming environment

The integration of day-to-day business communication with the Internet has made highly redundant Internet connectivity a mission-critical service. The use of e-mail and the web have become tightly integrated into the world economy and the way business is done. It is in this capacity—connecting to the Internet—that BGP is most commonly seen in enterprise environments.

This chapter presents the design options that ...