Re: [nsp] BGP route serving...

From: Abha Ahuja (ahuja@merit.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 15 1998 - 12:18:14 EDT


On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Terence C. Giufre-Sweetser wrote:

> With one RSd box: the "intermediate" as, the exchange ASN would appear in
> routes only for the actual IP ranges of the exchange points, (four in all,)
> and then RSd would have to use EBGP multihop sessions to get to the three
> remote NAP's for route serving, sounds dangerous: a NAP could loose
> routes after a WAN failure.

You would have to use EBGP multihop... Were you not planning on doing that
with a Cisco solution? Or were you going to have 4 Cisco boxes? Not
sure what you mean by the exchange ASN appearing in routes for only the IP
ranges of the XPs... I might be missing something about what you are
talking about there...

> With FOUR RSd boxen: each NAP has a core router that knows the full four site
> table, and provides a gateway to the others, it uses a RR iBGP session to
> feed the local RSd with the remote routes, and the local RSd "transmutes"
> these aspaths to remove the fake asn used by the exchange (on NON-NAP IP
> ranges,) providing all the WAN routes, and getting the aspaths shortened to 1
> hop aspaths.... (but will RSd do that?)

RSd does not support iBGP at this time (but it will in the near future...)
We are working on putting this functionality back into the code.

We should prolly take this conversation offline... (anyone else care about
route servers?)

Talk to you soon.

-abha ;)

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