North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Route-Reflector Redundancy
Brandon Applegate wrote: > In a redundant RR design, I have several questions that don't seem to be > clearly covered in RFC1966. > > 1) Does a given route-reflector have to peer with the other > route-reflectors in its own cluster ?? Yes. All route-reflector servers within your network should be fully meshed. > 2) If yes to 1), do the RRs in the cluster peer with each other as > clients or non-clients ?? All route-reflector servers peer as non-clients. > Above and beyond all of the above (actually depending on all of the above > :) ), if my client router hears something from RR1, will it also hear it > from RR2 ?? Is there a race condition ? Read BGP 101. A client router is just like any other BGP router, the protocol allows for a BGP router to hear multiple announcements for the same destination. The router will choose the best destination based on the usual BGP decision rules. -Steve
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