You're reading from Windows Server 2019 Cookbook Over 100 recipes to effectively configure networks, manage security, and administer workloads

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838987190

Length 650 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

Servers

Authors (2):

Jordan Krause

Mark Henderson

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Learning the Interface

2. Chapter 2: Core Infrastructure Tasks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Networking

4. Chapter 4: Working with Certificates

5. Chapter 5: Internet Information Services

6. Chapter 6: Remote Access

7. Chapter 7: Remote Desktop Services

8. Chapter 8: Monitoring and Backup

9. Chapter 9: System Insights

10. Chapter 10: Group Policy

11. Chapter 11: File Services and Data Control

12. Chapter 12: Server Core

13. Chapter 13: Working with Hyper-V

14. Chapter 14: Containers and Docker

15. Chapter 15: Desired State Configuration and Automation

16. Chapter 16: Hardening Your Infrastructure

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Using dynamic BGP routing in your Windows routing table

In the previous recipe, we added a single route to the routing table. For a lot of networks, this would be sufficient. However, in more complex networks, there might be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of routes that would be beneficial to learn – especially if your server is acting as a VPN server or a remote gateway.

Thankfully, Windows does have a way to learn these routes from other routers on the network. The Border Gateway Routing (BGP) protocol has been in use since 1989 and is one of the key technologies that allows the internet to work. Because of this, with the cooperation of your networking team, you may be able to have your Windows server learn everything it needs to know about available routes from your corporate routers.

Getting ready

We have a Server 2019 server that will learn the routes. We will also need a network router that has BGP configured and has your server whitelisted to read its routes...