[129299] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBGP Multihop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannes Frederic Sowa)
Thu Sep 2 11:44:38 2010
In-Reply-To: <4C7F6E9A.6070203@apolix.co.za>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:44:29 +0200
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@mailcolloid.de>
To: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:30 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.
I have not tried yet, but you could have a look at [1]. Perhaps it
could be extended to match your needs.
Do you run an IGP?
Hannes
[1] http://kbfd.sourceforge.net/
