[c-nsp] Filtering prefixes in mpBGP

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboehmer at cisco.com
Sat Oct 20 13:57:09 EDT 2007


Pshem Kowalczyk <> wrote on Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:09 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> We use route servers to mesh all the PEs. On the route server I can
> see that all the prefixes (even without the RT, just with RD) are
> learnt (or rather received), that causes unnecessary traffic amongst
> the route servers.
> The direct peering between the PEs is done within the vrfs - ie each
> PE has a loopback in a vrf Internet and the ibgp sessions directly on
> those loopbacks. Those sessions only exchange the 'internet' prefixes
> and export default into other vrf, so basically it works like if they
> were completly independed routers.

And this setup works? ;-) Which IOS do you run on the PEs? Out of
interest: Can you send the config of two of these PEs which peer to me?
Don't think we test/support setups like this.

	oli


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