RE: BGP route-reflectors in Hub and spoke

From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 17:47:22 GMT-3


At 04:40 PM 5/12/2003 -0400, Danny.Andaluz@triaton-na.com wrote:

>The hub has no IBGP routes to reflect. The spoke do run BGP.

So you have BGP, but no routes? If you have no routes, why run BGP
anyway? If you have routes, you need to either full mesh, or simulate it
with some reflection :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter van Oene [<mailto:pvo@usermail.com>mailto:pvo@usermail.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:37 PM
>To: Andaluz, Danilo, Triaton/NA; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: BGP route-reflectors in Hub and spoke
>
>At 03:05 PM 5/12/2003 -0400, Danny.Andaluz@triaton-na.com wrote:
> >If no spokes are sending routes via BGP to the hub, are
> >route-reflectors
> >still required? I do not see the point if there are no routes to be
> >reflected. Should I just add the route-reflectors anyway?
>
>Do the spokes run BGP? Do you want them to learn IBGP routes from the hub
>that the hub learned via IBGP itself?
>
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Danny



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