[46347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Tue Mar 26 09:31:35 2002
Message-Id: <200203261430.g2QEUT1x010377@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 09:14:11 -0500.
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Reply-To: khuon@NEEBU.Net (Jake Khuon)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:30:29 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
### On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:14:11 -0500, "Chris Pace" <cpace@allmeds.net>
### casually decided to expound upon "Jake Khuon" <khuon@NEEBU.Net> the
### following thoughts about "Re: Route Collector ":
CP> Yes, it is forwarding bgp routes. However, it has no serial lines connected.
CP> Do you think it is causing unnecessary traffic ?
I guess I'm just a little confused. You have your servers pointing default
to it which means it's intended to pass traffic but it has no external
connectivity and it's passing eBGP routes? How is that possible? I guess
it would help me to understand if I knew what you're trying to achieve.
CP> ----- Original Message -----
CP> From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
CP> To: "Chris Pace" <cpace@allmeds.net>
CP> Cc: "Todd Suiter" <todd@s4r.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
CP> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:02 AM
CP> Subject: Re: Route Collector
CP>
CP>
CP> > ### On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:50:44 -0500, "Chris Pace" <cpace@allmeds.net>
CP> > ### casually decided to expound upon "Todd Suiter" <todd@s4r.com> the
CP> > ### following thoughts about "Route Collector":
CP> >
CP> > CP> Is it common or a good idea to have a route collector in a
CP> > CP> datacenter/enterprise environment ? We have 1 router that just
CP> collects
CP> > CP> routes using bgp and ospf, then set all servers to use it as the
CP> default
CP> > CP> gateway. Is this practical or am I making more work for myself ?
CP> >
CP> > So it's doing more than just collecting routes? It's also forwarding
CP> > traffic? Is it carrying a full table of eBGP routes too?
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