MENOG 8 offered two Workshops from 15-18 May:
IPv4/IPv6 BGP Routing Workshop
A workshop for network engineers who building or operating a wide area TCP/IP based ISP network with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.
Instructors: Philip Smith (Cisco), Jonny Martin (PCH)
Who should attend?
This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. It is open to technical staff who are now building or operating a wide area Service Provider network with international and/or multi-provider connectivity.
Pre-requisites
Participants must have technical day to day hands on experience of Internet routers and knowledge of dynamic routing protocols. Cisco IOS fundamentals, user level UNIX and maybe some system administration, some use of network design preferably TCP/IP-based is also helpful.
What you will learn
- Techniques for design, set-up, and operation of a metropolitan, regional, or national ISP backbone network using IPv4 and IPv6. The workshop teaches ISIS and BGP.
- Techniques for multiple connections to the Internet (multihoming), including connections to IXPs and ISPs.
- Techniques to achieve optimal performance and configuration from a Cisco backbone router. This includes routing scalability, network design, and configuration
Technologies Covered
IPv4 and IPv6, ISIS, iBGP, eBGP, BGP Scaling, BGP Policies and Multihoming, Route Reflectors, BGP Best Practices and BGP Configuration Essentials.
Each class is different and tuned to the participants requirements. If there are any specific requirements, these should be communicated to the instructors during the workshops. The instructors who teach at these workshops are among the top Internet engineers today and between them, have a great deal of knowledge on many current technologies.
Please be aware that participants are required to bring laptops
DNS/DNSSEC Workshop
A workshop for those building and/or operating authoritative and recursive DNS
infrastructure.
Instructors: Peter Losher (ISC), Wolfgang Nagele (RIPE NCC)
Who should attend?
This is a technical workshop with a strong focus on practical DNS tutorials.
Participants need to bring their own laptop and need a good level of Unix
sysadmin expertise. Furthermore a general level of DNS administration knowledge
is needed.
Pre-requisites
Participants must have technical day to day hands on experience of DNS
operations. ISC BIND, dig, user level UNIX and maybe some system administration,
some use of network design preferably TCP/IP-based is also helpful.
What you will learn:
- DNS refresher
- Advanced DNS topics (Glue record, RFC2317, TCP transport)
- Debugging DNS using dig & Wireshark
- Non-ASCII domains (IDN)
- IPv6 in the DNS
- Software (BIND, Unbound, NSD)
- Anycasting DNS services
- Statistics
- DNSSEC theory and practice
Please be aware that participants are required to bring laptops