[126578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik BGP Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Fri May 21 19:43:14 2010
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 01:42:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
In-Reply-To: <02b001caf8df$62324ea0$2696ebe0$@org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dear Lorell,
> My question is about BGP on the Mikrotik platform. The guy who I am
> supplanting swears that we are supposed to be bringing the second internet
> link to the same place as the first internet link for BGP to work properly.
> Obviously that is not true with major brand routers which would do the BGP
> job just fine. (And he's the same guy that has bridged this whole network,
> so it is easy to disbelieve his opinion.) But maybe he knows that Mikrotik
> can't perform BGP in the same way that other routers can.
>
> 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?
That depends on the netwoek in between this two locations.
There could be a lot of good reasons why this is no good idea; please
bring some light into this.
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
