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Re: handling large numbers of EBGP peers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Wed Dec 10 15:28:32 1997

From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:11:57 PST."
             <199712101911.LAA03797@newmoon.rjl.com> 
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:01:56 +0000

> I've got a router on Mae West with an open peering policy that has
> close to 70 peers.

1. Consider using RA for less important peers. This saves you EBGP sessions.
2. I'm running a 7507 at MAE-East with a similar number of peers which
   is as stable as MAE-East allows it to be.

-- 
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)



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