From: Nick Shah (nshah@connect.com.au)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 05:13:14 GMT-3
Comments inline...
>
> I would like some clarification on BGP confederation configs
>
> I have the following setup
>
> BB1 BB2
> I I
> R1-----R2---------R3---------R4-----------R5
>
> R2 and R3 are in AS 65001 and AS 65002 respectively
> Both R2 and R3 have the commands BGP Confederation Peers of 65001 ,65002
and
> BGP Confederation ID of 2001 2002
R2 will need confederation peer commands for every 'directly connected'
confed peer (same goes for R3). So if for eg. confed 65005 is not directly
connected to R2, you dont need a confed peer for that.
> My question is do R1,R4 and R5 need the BGP Confederation commands
aswell??
> As I have configured them without and all BGP connectivity seems to be
> working?
How are R1, R4 & R5 configured, as confed peers or External peers. ?
Nick
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