"Don Hickey" 10/23/07 7:55 PM GMT+2: <snip> > On the example above do I need to have a router reflector for this > to work?
You either need to have all your iBGP speakers have all the others configured manually (pref. via peer-group) or use a route reflector. If you network is small and will stay small for the foreseeably future, you could do without the RRs. They introduce a slight delay in route propagation, but makes it easier to administer a large group of iBGP speakers. So the short answer is: No, but then you need full mesh BGP configuration. > If so, if PE5 was the RR, would I need to include all the other PE > routers as clients? Unless you have a very large network, you would have one or two RRs (two for redundancy, but one would do fine) and have all others be RR clients, peering with the two RRs (or the one RR). (With a very large network you might have several levels of RR indirection.) > I was wanting to use MPLS for our Internet traffic, because in the > future their might be other companies that use this network as a > transit from one location to another. I would like to keep it > seperate from our traffic. You're probably referring to "MPLS VPN", which can give you traffic seperation among other things. You can do transit fine without MPLS VPN; if you would only transport internet routable addresses, there shouldn't be any need for MPLS VPN. If you would transport private addresses you would probably need something like MPLS VPN. > I have no problems reading if someone were to have a nice link to > send me. I have been working on this for too long and would like to > knwo if I am on the right track or if there is a better way to > implement a solution. You can read a little about BGP peer groups and RR here: http://www.tinyurl.dk/1988 Look for the "Controlling the Flow of BGP Updates" chapter. Regards, Peter Rathlev _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/