[129296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBGP Multihop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Carrozzo)
Thu Sep 2 10:49:46 2010
In-Reply-To: <4C7F6E9A.6070203@apolix.co.za>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:49:33 -0400
From: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
To: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> The dev guys want to be able to poke at the BGP feeds directly and do
*magic* that standard router aren't capable of.
This should scare you in a significant manner.
-Jack Carrozzo
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za> wrote:
> 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
>
>
