[c-nsp] Soft Reconfiguration In?

[Murphy, William]

I am with an edu so we say I1 to mean commodity Internet as opposed to
I2 Internet2 routes...


-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Strauss [mailto:philou at philou.ch] 
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:03 PM
To: Murphy, William 
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Soft Reconfiguration In?

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:54:09PM -0500, Murphy, William  wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who has responded...  I assume route refresh sends
> the entire BGP table without resetting the peer.  Given full I1 routes
> would there be any benefit to still doing the soft reset feature since
> this would avoid re-sending the entire table?

What do you mean by full "I1" routes?

Personnally, I would still use soft-reconf inbound only when doing
massive
BGP tuning on inbound, like adding a new upstream and tweaking rules
to load balance outbound. very rare indeed. Or if you're really scarce
on bandwidth (I1 = T1??).

regards.

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