RE: BGP RR Question

From: Nambi Appachigounder (nambi_gct@yahoo.co.in)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2007 - 13:15:20 ART


Thanks Scott and others.Had there not been an RR, R1
would have received both the routes.Can I say that RR
took away some flexibility on R1.(I could have
selected the other route on R1 with weight if there
had been no RR).Is my understanding correct?

Regards,
-Nambi
--- Scott Morris <smorris@ipexpert.com> wrote:

> Disregard last e-mail. Lack of caffeine told me R1
> was the RR. It's not.
>
> >R2< will have the notes below.
>
> R1, an RR client will only have ONE path.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Scott Morris
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:45 AM
> To: 'Nambi Appachigounder'; 'groupstudy'
> Subject: RE: BGP RR Question
>
> That will depend on what you have configured
> (multipath or not?), but in a
> generic configuration you'll get one "best" path
> showing up on R1.
>
> "sh ip bgp" should indicate to you that there is
> more than one valid path,
> but only one best path.
>
> "sh ip ro b" will verify your routing table.
>
> HTH,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Nambi Appachigounder
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:36 AM
> To: 'groupstudy'
> Subject: BGP RR Question
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a BGP question.Can someone please help me.
>
> 1) R1,R2,R3 and R4 are in AS 100.
> 2) R2 is RR and R1,R3,R4 are RR clients.
> 3) R5 is in AS 200.
>
>
> R1
> |
> |
> R2
> / \
> / \
> / \
> R3 R4
> \ /
> \ /
> \ /
> R5
>
> When R5 advertise advertises a network "X" to R3 and
> R4, how many bgp
> entries will we see on R1.(only the best or both?)
>
> Thanks,
> Nambi
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