[126561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik BGP Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri May 21 08:23:43 2010
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Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 13:23:18 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 21/05/2010 13:16, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
> job just fine. (And he's the same guy that has bridged this whole network,
> so it is easy to disbelieve his opinion.)
ew. nasty.
> So here's the question. Is there something about running BGP on a Mikrotik
> platform that precludes having the internet connections come in at different
> locations?
I will refrain from making any smart-ass comments about Mikrotik and BGP,
but no: there is no reason whatever that you can't take your internet feeds
from different locations, so long as you have a good quality interior
network link between those two locations, and your two routers talk iBGP to
each other. Just make sure your boxes have enough RAM to cope with a full
dfz feed.
I.e. it's just the same as using any other router in this regard.
Nick
