[j-nsp] redistribute iBGP learned routes

[Jeff Wheeler]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Matthias Brumm <matthias at brumm.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your insight. I would like to clean up our structure a bit,
> so I will go with route-reflection.

If you are not very knowledgeable about BGP, you should probably avoid
doing route-reflection (or confederating) until you have a more
thorough understanding of how things work and your various options /
caveats.

You may not be aware that you do not need a direct circuit (or VLAN,
etc) to establish an iBGP session from your access router to your edge
router.  Establishing iBGP sessions among all of your routers is the
normal way of deploying a small BGP network.

Route-reflection and confederating are good tools for scaling up, but
in this case, you are using a complicated tool that has non-trivial
caveats, because you do not understand some very basic things about
how BGP works.  This is not good for you or your BGP customer.  :-/

-- 
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts