Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices

* Justin Shore · * Sat Dec 20 22:01:32 2008

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

Heck, you could store all that in Rancid .. even cvs/svn

I should have said it earlier when I mentioned config backups. I'm
already a heavy user of RANCID, archiving my configs hourly. Been using
it since right around v2.0-2.1 which would be several years ago (feels
like a lifetime). So my config backups are more than taken care of.
What I'm interested in is if I should also document the PE-CE BGP config
details elsewhere or if I should just leave them in the PE and let my
backups cover me.
Part of what's driving this is my desire to create a book of templates
for our assorted product offerings that covers both PEs and CEs.
Eventually I won't be able to handle everything myself and staff will
have to be added. Eventually we'll have to separate operations,
engineering, security and maybe even install/turnup tasks. I'd like
there to be a solid practices established and documented in a solutions
bible of sorts before that happens. My brain can only store so much
info and I can only do so much in a day. Plus having all these details
ironed out sooner rather than later, and documented, will help keep me
honest (ie, no band-aides that I plan on removing when I get time <g>).
The other added benefit is that as I figure out how to do something
rather fancy or in a simple and elegant manner I can document it for my
own benefit and others.
So back to the original topics, does anyone have suggestions for
CE-facing BGP config or the management and documentation of the CE
details? I'm experimenting with peer-policy and peer-session templates
right now. I'm sure with dozens or hundreds of peers their benefits
would be more evident. So far they only seem to reduce my default-only
test peers by 3 lines of config each. I'm sure this would be more saved
lines of config if I was doing something more fancy.
Thanks for the input
 Justin