[183440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP advertise-best-external on RR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Sep 2 03:40:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:40:20 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7BwRvu=wDC6GDrF3AnQp+L1nXRp8Oc8YE3BgoOC25bT1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2/Sep/15 09:30, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> Not a suggestion, just trying to learn something here. Is there an
> advantage to use a route reflector in the described setup, which appears to
> involve only a small number of routers? I would think that full mesh would
> solve the problem and at the same time be easier since you do not have to
> maintain any route reflectors.
>
> With peer-group it is not a real bother to configure a handful of iBGP
> peers.
I and a bunch of others have always recommended starting with a route
reflector regardless of your network size. It makes growing much easier.
Mark.
