Re: bgp confederation [7:38630]

2002-03-18 Thread John Neiberger
Peer groups allow a simpler configuration when you have more than just a few neighbors with similar outgoing routing policies. It also saves processor resources within the router because it will form updates more efficiently. For each peer group, the router only needs to construct a single updat

RE: bgp confederation [7:38630]

2002-03-18 Thread Ouellette, Tim
BGP peer-groups are in my eyes, strictly used to simplify configurations. Let's say you had 5 peers in the same as, wanted to use the same route-map out, set your next-hop-self and other things. Wouldn't it be easier it just define a peer-group and add each of those neighbors to that group rather