Monday, June 8, 2009

How to configure BGP using Route Reflectors?

When your network have grown and a full mesh isn't feasible n*(n-1)/2 where n = the number of iBGP speaking routers. If we have 200 routers in our network that would give us 19900 BGP sessions.
SOLUTIONS
Route Reflectors
Confederations
Using standard Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) configurations, all BGP systems within an Autonomous System (AS) must peer with all other BGP systems, forming a full-mesh configuration. This presents scaling concerns, as all external information must be propagated/distributed to all BGP systems within the AS, resulting in far more information being shared between the IBGP peers then is necessary. BGP Route Reflectors (RR) provides a mechanism for both minimizing the number of update messages transmitted within the AS, and reducing the amount of data that is propagated in each message. The deployment of BGP Route Reflectors leads to much higher levels of network scalability.
A ROUTE REFLECTOR REFLECTS IBGP ROUTING INFORMATION
♦ From clients to iBGP peers and other clients
♦ From iBGP peers to clients
♦ Never from iBGP peers to iBGP peers (as before)
♦ Should not change the attributes
NEXT_HOP
AS_PATH
LOCAL_PREF
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