On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: > In your opinion, is there any downside to this behavior > operationally (other than the time it takes for a unadvertised > route to present itself in the event the advertised route is > withdrawn?)?
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? ;-) The advantage to that behavior is that it helps reduce the state involved. If all iBGP speakers advertise all routes, then you end up with tables the size of (# of routes) * (# of BGP speakers) at every speaker. While this might not seem like a lot, consider the case of Tier 1 SPs who have 240k routes (+ internal routes) times 500 or so BGP speakers. DRAM is cheap, but it's not free. Tony _______________________________________________ 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/
