When I wrote my first BGP book I painstakingly made the config examples on actual Cisco routers. In my opinion, it's crucial to make sure that configuration examples that go in a book actually work.
So when I started writing my new BGP book, I did the same. But this time, I used open source routing software (FRRouting) running in Docker containers. Basically, those containers are very light-weight virtual machines.
This makes it possible to run a dozen virtual routers that start up and shut down in just a few seconds. So it's very easy to run different examples by starting the required virtual routers with the configuration for that example.
This was super useful when I was writing the book.
So I thought it would also be very useful for people reading the book.
So I'm making the "BGP minilab" with all the config examples from the book available to my readers. Download version 2022-11 of the minilab that goes with the first version of the book here.
You can also run the examples in the minilab if you don't have the book. And you can create your own labs based on these scripts.
The minilab consist of four scripts:
There are Mac/Linux shell script and Windows Powershell versions of each script.
