[c-nsp] BGP Route Reflector Case

[Mark Tinka]

On 23/Feb/17 06:49, Curtis Piehler wrote:

> This is more of a design question but looking to implement on IOS-XR if
> it's possible.  Can a router act as a dual purpose route reflector?  What I
> mean by that, can it serve the purpose of both a local market route
> reflector and regional route reflector?  Basically having to peer a bunch
> of local market route reflectors does not scale hence the need for a
> regional or 2nd level route reflectors at the top.  Local market route
> reflectors do solve the issue of sub-optimal routing from a local market
> perspective.

Sure can.

The BGP-ORR (Optimal Route Reflection) feature was built for this use-case.

Mark.