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RE: Mikrotik BGP Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorell Hathcock)
Sat May 22 17:56:08 2010
From: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>
To: "'Ingo Flaschberger'" <if@xip.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005220141150.21719@filebunker.xip.at>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 16:55:57 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We are putting a private PTP metro ethernet (fiber based) link between the
two locations. And both locations will have one internet connection.
I am reading that Mikrotik has a memory leak in its BGP implementation. Any
more info about this?
Sincerely,
Lorell Hathcock
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:if@xip.at]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:43 PM
To: Lorell Hathcock
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Mikrotik BGP Question
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
