Are there any safe ways to play with BGP in a lab environment? actually there are multiple ways of running bgp in a lab. there are cheap variants that are rout

Are there any safe ways to play with BGP in a lab environment? actually there are multiple ways of running bgp in a lab. there are cheap variants that are routed into the internet with ipv6 and there are ways to just play without without talking to the outside network. How expensive would said lab be to set up? it heavily depends on what you want. for a high available lab you would of course need multiple nodes/routers, depends on what you want to do. for just playing with bgp, actually using bird http://bird.network.cz/ http://bird.network.cz/ is good enough. Actually ripe sometimes publishes articles with BGP. Here is one that sets up a ANYCAST routing with BGP https://labs.ripe.net/Members/samir_jafferali/build-your-own-anycast-network-in-nine-steps https://labs.ripe.net/Members/samir_jafferali/build-your-own...