[129292] in North American Network Operators' Group
eBGP Multihop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Beneke)
Thu Sep 2 05:33:37 2010
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:30:02 +0200
From: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
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I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop
on all the eBGP sessions. Basically all upstreams, downstreams and peers
will eBGP with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be
some kind of quagga or similar box. The dev guys want to be able to poke
at the BGP feeds directly and do *magic* that standard router aren't
capable of.
My gut feel is that this is a bad idea. Besides anything else it makes
sane link state detection very challenging - especially where we have
multiple sessions with a peer.
Is their any BCP or operational experience that agrees or disagrees with
my gut. ;-)
--
Graham Beneke
