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Kurt Buff wrote:
> All,
> 
> My company is getting a fractional DS3 in the near future, and I've
> acquired a Sangoma a301 card to handle the interface.
> 
> We're retaining one of the T1s we currently have, from a different
> provider, and we're intent on using BGP to manage the two connections.
> 
> Does anyone have good pointers to tutorials or howtos on setting up
> OpenBGP for a newb like me who has never done this before?
> 
> I've got the ARIN web site open now, looking through the docs on
> getting our ASN, but it's all new to me, and I could use a little
> help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt


I found the O'Reilly BGP book a very good introduction, it does not 
explicitly cover OpenBGP.  It coves more of the operation side of using 
BGP...

Website:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/

View Online:
http://books.google.com/books?id=V5GHAHC4Di8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=oreilly+bgp

Hope this helps.

Tom