[46344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Tue Mar 26 09:03:41 2002
Message-Id: <200203261402.g2QE2h1x010315@wooj.com>
From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
To: "Chris Pace" <cpace@allmeds.net>
Cc: "Todd Suiter" <todd@s4r.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: "Chris Pace"'s message of Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:50:44 -0500.
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Reply-To: khuon@NEEBU.Net (Jake Khuon)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:02:43 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
### On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:50:44 -0500, "Chris Pace" <cpace@allmeds.net>
### casually decided to expound upon "Todd Suiter" <todd@s4r.com> the
### following thoughts about "Route Collector":
CP> Is it common or a good idea to have a route collector in a
CP> datacenter/enterprise environment ? We have 1 router that just collects
CP> routes using bgp and ospf, then set all servers to use it as the default
CP> gateway. Is this practical or am I making more work for myself ?
So it's doing more than just collecting routes? It's also forwarding
traffic? Is it carrying a full table of eBGP routes too?
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