[177159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Fri Jan 2 13:37:14 2015
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:30:37 +0200
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On Friday, January 02, 2015 04:17:37 AM Ca By wrote:
> Ymmv. I have feeling that running a bgp rr on cheap /
> standard / commidity vm is pretty exotic from a support
> perspective.
Not really.
Since July last year.
The worst I've had was the HP server shutting down in a=20
London data centre due to environmental overheating.
Beyond that, similar requirements as with a router, if you=20
avoid the VM clustering goodness they all preach.
> So running a bgp rr on a vm may make sense in theory, but
> my network control planes are not too busy and vm bgp is
> a unique/ exotic support model.
Amongst very many other things, running an RR on my core=20
router means I need to touch my core router code if I want=20
that exotic routing feature.
I'd rather not, if my core router (in-path) is really just=20
forwarding traffic between PoP's.
But agree, our networks are probably quite different :-).
Mark.
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