On 2011-03-14, Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:46:28 -0500, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > >> Make sure your nexthops are valid: bgpctl sh nex > > I worked with my coworker on it this afternoon and he discovered the > nexthops issue. We have resolved the problem for now. > > Out next step is to figure out how to make OpenBGPD be kind of like a > local BGP cache and not actually route traffic through these boxes because > we really don't want that. If we have to we will, but we'd prefer to not > be pushing all our traffic through non-network hardware if possible. The > goal here is to get OpenBGPD to simply be a better point of contact to the > transport routers' BGP than Cisco. Does anyone know if this type of setup > is possible?
Yes, this is not an uncommon setup; several IXPs and various other networks are using bgpd on route-servers.
