Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Luobin Yang
Hi, group, Now I am studying BGP4 from Cisco Website. I have one question about peer group. From the material that I am studying, it seems peer group function(Internal or External) is not that useful. Cause I have no experience on BGP4, so I was wondering if anybody who has experience on BGP

Re: Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Hi, group, Now I am studying BGP4 from Cisco Website. I have one question about peer group. From the material that I am studying, it seems peer group function(Internal or External) is not that useful. Cause I have no experience on BGP4, so I was wondering if anybody who has experience on BGP

Re: Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Luobin Yang
Thanks for your reply. I say "useful", I mean is this function used frequently or just in case? Luobin "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: Hi, group, Now I am studying BGP4 from Cisco Website. I have one question about peer group. From the material that I am studying, it seems peer group

Re: Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Thanks for your reply. I say "useful", I mean is this function used frequently or just in case? Luobin Yes, in ISP environments. The larger the ISP, the more likely it is to be used. "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: Hi, group, Now I am studying BGP4 from Cisco Website. I have one

Re: Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Andy
, not sure how this reduces processor loading... care to elaborate? HTH Andy - Original Message - From: Luobin Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:04 PM Subject: Is Peer group in BGP useful? Hi, group, Now I am studying BGP4 from Cisco Website. I have

Re: Is Peer group in BGP useful?

2000-08-15 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
we use it a lot for our internal iBGP peers - if you define a peer-group with stuff like next-hop-self, remote-as, send-community, update-source, and the like, then all you need to do for each peer (and you can get a lot in a fully meshed iBGP environment) is assign it to a peer-group. Remember