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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: CIDR FAQ
> >So what would the normal implementation of such a design be? ebgp-multihop > >all of your peers into the PC, and then a single peering session the Cisco, > >presuming no "next-hop-self" routes? > > No. Colocated BGP4 "proxies" (I'm still not sure what to call these, > anyone?) would peer via EBGP with other ASes BGP4 "proxies" on the same > net. The next_hop BGP4 attribute on all routes exchanged would be that > of the routers on the high speed interconnect, not of the "proxies." > ASes that do not implement this would still peer via EBGP > router-to-router as usual and would not see the "proxies;" eventually > everyone would move towards having "proxies" or else router vendors > would beef up their products, either way, we're all happy. > > > Nick > This is very similar to the existing RA route server design. If you want to play with this, then pick up the RS code and try it out. Its a lot closer than the gated base is for doing this kind of "toying around". --bill
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