I was only looking for ease of management..



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From: Aaron Moreck <[email protected]>
To: Cedric King <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Hill <[email protected]>; "Di Bias, Steve" <[email protected]>; 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, July 17, 2011 7:51:26 PM
Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Peer Group vs Confederation



Cedric,

I dont think you have a clear understanding on what a confederation is.   A 
confederation is  away so split up an AS into smaller AS's  and still make them 
act as one big AS.  The reasons to do this could be scalability,  aquirint 
other 
networks and not wanting to renumber BGP, or to over come the full mesh 
requirement of BGP without using route reflectors.

Example Lets say  R2 , R4 , R5 and R6 are running BGP.   R2 and R4 are in AS 24 
and peer with each other (iBGP).   R5 and R6  are in AS 56 and peer with each 
other (iBGP).   You can make a confederation AS 2456 which is made up of AS 24 
and AS56.   The (eBGP) connection between AS 24 and AS 56 would be configured 
as 
eBGP but would act more like iBGP.   If any router R2,R4,R5, or R6 peered with 
a 
thrid AS the third AS would think they are peering with AS2456.

To answer your question below.  Yes if you applied a route-map of something 
like 
that to the peer group

neighbor PEERGROUP route-map MyMAP

it would apply the route-map to .4 , .5 , and .6 

Hope this helps

Aaron



On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Cedric King <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all,
>
>It was not understanding how peer groups worked after labbing things up, my
>thought process was that it did the same thing as Confederations for managing
>large Scale BGP in the sense of applying changes or adding policies to the one
>peer and things trickled down to the group...
>
>

ex...
>
>R1
>router bgp 1
>neighbor PEERGROUP peer-group
>neighbor PEERGROUP remote-as 1
>neighbor PEERGROUP upd lo0
>
>neighbor 200.0.0.4 peer-group PEERGROUP
>neighbor 200.0.0.5 peer-group PEERGROUP
>neighbor 200.0.0.6 peer-group PEERGROUP
>
>now if I apply a filter, will it not trickle down to the rest of the group the
>same way if I'm adding this to a Confederation ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Matt Hill <[email protected]>
>To: "Di Bias, Steve" <[email protected]>
>Cc: Cedric King <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Sun, July 17, 2011 5:40:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Peer Group vs Confederation
>
>
>I think he is thinking of route reflectors not peer-groups.  Although
>you could use a peer-group to establish and define all the
>route-reflector-clients.
>
>Cheers,
>Matt
>
>CCIE #22386
>CCSI #31207
>
>On 18 July 2011 00:51, Di Bias, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Cedric I'm a little confused by the question my self. If you're looking at 
>ease
>>of configuration confederations aren't the answer, for that you want peer 
>groups
>>or configuration templates. If you need break up your IGP or can't have full
>>mesh then you would use confederations or route reflectors depending upon 
>what's
>>being asked of you
>>
>> Cedric King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hey Gang,
>>
>> I'm preparing for November... 3rd time is a charm.. I would like to know,
>which
>> is more convenient for management on in a large scale BGP environment...
>>
>> Peer Group or Confederation  and does one hold more weight over the other ?
>>
>>
>> v/r
>>
>> Cedric
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