Post-Lab Questions

Please enter the answers to these questions into your lab notebook.

1. What are MEDs in BGP and how are they used by service providers?

2. How do service providers indicate and select preferred routes?

3. What is the purpose of multi-homing and how do multi-homed AS's decide which upstream provider to send traffic?

4. What is route aggregation and why is it important?

5. Can BGP used for intra-domain routing? Explain your answer.

6. Does the BGP speaker for an AS need to be physically located on the edge of its network. Explain your answer.