[24442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route-Reflector Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew R Frame)
Tue Jun 29 23:44:52 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew R Frame <aframe@employees.org>
To: Brandon Applegate <brandon@one.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906291001090.16576-100000@chrome.burn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brandon Applegate wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> In a redundant RR design, I have several questions that don't seem to be
> clearly covered in RFC1966.
>
> 1) Does a given route-reflector have to peer with the other
> route-reflectors in its own cluster ??
yes
>
> 2) If yes to 1), do the RRs in the cluster peer with each other as
> clients or non-clients ??
non-clients
>
> 3) If no to all of the above, do you just put X numbers of route
> reflectors into the AS and each client etc. in the cluster now
> peers with X # of RR's ?
>
> Above and beyond all of the above (actually depending on all of the above
> :) ), if my client router hears something from RR1, will it also hear it
> from RR2 ?? Is there a race condition ?
Why dont you setup multiple clusters and have one rr for each cluster? it
is possible to have more then one rr per cluster.. but i dont know if this
is what you want to do.
latah,
-andrew
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Brandon Applegate, CCNA : Network Administrator
> http://www.one.net : brandon@one.net
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