From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 12:44:11 GMT-3
At 09:31 AM 2/5/2003 -0600, Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF} wrote:
>This is what is was talking about from the 12.1 config guide documentation
>under BGP.
>
>By default, the clients of a route reflector are not required to be fully
>meshed and the routes from a client are reflected to other clients.
>However, if the clients are fully meshed, the route reflector does not
>need to reflect routes to clients. To disable client-to-client route
>reflection, use the no bgp client-to-client reflection command, beginning
>in router configuration mode:
This is accurate
>Note: If client-to-client reflection is enabled, the clients of a route
>reflector cannot be members of a peer group.
This is odd, but may be an ios limitation. In Juniper, one applies
no-client-reflect to the peer group. It is quite normal to have all
members of a reflection cluster in the same peer group.
>What I interpret from this statment,is that RR can't have clients that are
>in a peer group they configured(logical).
I would tend to agree with your interpretation, though I'm not sure what
the technical limitation is.
>Tx,
>
>Patrick B
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter van Oene [mailto:pvo@usermail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:29 AM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Route Reflectors and Peer Groups
>
>
>At 10:03 PM 2/4/2003 -0600, Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF} wrote:
> >Question
> >
> >Is it true that you can not have neighbors in a peer-group and be
> >their route reflector at the same time?
> >If this is true, should the "no bgp client-to-client reflection" command
> >take card of this.
> >I have seen labs were this configuration happened.
>
>Are you asking if clients in a reflection cluster can be neighbors
>themselves? peer-groups are just a configuration tool and don't actually
>affect the performance of BGP external to the router. If this is that
>case, then yes is the answer, and no client-to-client-reflection will stop
>the reflection server from reflecting intra cluster routes back to clients
>(since they will be learning these directly)
>
>Pete
>
>
>
>
> >Tx,
> >
> >Patrick B
> >.
>.
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