[c-nsp] route reflector vs route server

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Jamie Baddeley <> wrote on Friday, June 02, 2006 4:24 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to configure the cisco route reflector (i.e iBGP peers
> only) to be a route server (i.e iBGP *and* eBGP peers)? eBGP peers
> would be customers only and not upstreams. iBGP peers would be other
> route servers.

sure you can, but the cisco router will prepend it's ASN before passing
routes to the eBGP peers, something which might not desireable in some
route-server deployments (like on an exchange-point LAN).

	oli