At BSDCan, I'll be giving a tutorial "BGP for Sysadmins/Developers". This will be my first class I've taught solo.
My future intentions for this is to teach networking and #BGP for people that know nothing about networking. I found it somewhat difficult to move from Sysadmin to Network Admin, and I want to help others cross over if they want.
Not to mention, having a solid understanding of networking will help you with computers in general.
The goal of this class will be for the students to understand how and why a route is chosen, where it goes, and to send/receive a single route in BGP.
This should be enough to whet someone's interest, and to help them with Data Center Networking that they might be doing at $work.
It is *NOT* intended to teach them enough to run a router on the default-free-zone on the wild internet.
It's only a half-day tutorial, sheesh!
@mwlucas I can count the number of times I've had to do binary math on a route in my DC[1] with one hand. Even with tools, it isn't common.
[1] Not counting creating a new subnets.
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