[j-nsp] router reflector clients and non-clients

[Victor Sudakov]

sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > I'm reading
> > https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/bgp-route-reflectors.html
> > and it is completely mind-boggling. 
> > 
> > The example configuration of the Router Reflector (RR) places all neighbors
> > (both clients and non-clients) into one group "internal-peers." How is this
> > supposed to work? How do I tell the RR that routers B and C are clients, and
> > routers E and D are non-clients?
> > 
> > In Cisco, you set the "router-reflector-client" statement for each
> > peer (or peer-group) who is a RR-client, explicitly. I don't see
> > anything of the kind in the example from the Juniper site.
> 
> Indeed, having separate groups for clients (cluster x.x.x.x) and
> non-clients (no cluster configured) is the normal way of configuring
> this. 

Sorry, this cannot be the normal way. If a router receives an update from a
non-client with its own cluster-id (e.g. from another RR in the same
cluster) it should *drop* this update. Having no cluster configured is
totally wrong, especially if there are redundant RRs with iBGP sessions
between them.

> The example configuration from juniper.net looks wrong.

Disbelieve :-) I would rather believe in my own folly.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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