Re: BGP Confederations

From: fwells12 (fwells12@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 15:07:10 GMT-3


   
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCallum, Robert" <Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com>
To: "'Sijbren Beukenkamp'" <s.beukenkamp@nl.ibm.com>; "McCallum, Robert"
<Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com>
Cc: "'Ccielab' (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; "Cisco@Groupstudy. Com
(E-mail)" <cisco@groupstudy.com>; <nobody@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: BGP Confederations

> I have just configured the scenario below on my lab and it appears that
the internal BGP peers do not need to know the Confed id or peers. If I
look at the bgp table all the correct routing info is getting passed i.e. an
internal bgp router still sees in its bgp routing table that networks have
> came from certain confeds i.e. as path = (8) (7) 254 23. I believe now
that you only have to configure confed and peers only on the borders.
>
> correct me if I am wrong here.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sijbren Beukenkamp [mailto:s.beukenkamp@nl.ibm.com]
> Sent: 01 November 2001 15:39
> To: McCallum, Robert
> Cc: 'Ccielab' (E-mail); Cisco@Groupstudy. Com (E-mail);
> nobody@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: BGP Confederations
>
>
> Yes,
> you have to configure all routers within your confederation with you
> confederation id.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards,
> Sijbren
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> "McCallum, Robert" <Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com>
> Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
> 01-11-2001 16:25
> Please respond to "McCallum, Robert"
>
>
> To: "'Ccielab' (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>,
"Cisco@Groupstudy. Com
> (E-mail)" <cisco@groupstudy.com>
> cc:
> Subject: BGP Confederations
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If you have 4 routers within an confederation r1,r2,r3&r4. R1 has and
> EBGP connection to another As so therefore has the bgp confederation id
> and confed peer statements on it. My question is do all of the IBGP
> router (r2,r3&r4) require the confed statements on them even if they are
> only IBGP
> routers??
>
> 14 days to go!! Starting to have some fun !!
>
> Robert McCallum



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