On Behalf Of Bob Arthurs
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 01:32
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] BGP Peer Group drawbacks???
Hi all,
A colleague recently told me not to use BGP peer groups because he
insists that there a drawbacks to using them.
Does anyone know of any drawbacks to p
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:04:39PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:31:47PM +, Bob Arthurs wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> A colleague recently told me not to use BGP peer groups because he
> >> insists that there a drawbacks to using them
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Marko Milivojevic wrote:
> > Seems to me that peer/session templates would allow you to get more
> granular
> > with your BGP configuration then peer-groups due to
> > their inheritance feature. So it makes sense to me.
>
> >Well... comparing peer-groups and tem
Great point Marko,
just adding to that, in the most recent IOS versions update-groups are
built automatically when you have neighbors with an equal policy
configuration.
That means, peers belonging to the same peer-group, or with the same
peer-policy template or even without peer-groups or t
and # of prefix's etc...I guess a question could be - why wouldn't you use
templates - even for a simple BGP config? Any ISP ops on the list - do you
use templates, peer-groups - or both?
We use templates, including inheritance. They're very handy.
From memory however, some things don't quite
> Seems to me that peer/session templates would allow you to get more granular
> with your BGP configuration then peer-groups due to
> their inheritance feature. So it makes sense to me.
>
> I don't think scale is the only deciding factor between peer group and
> templates. I think it also depend
>
> > 1998 called, it wants its release notes back. The modern version you
> > should be using instead of peer groups is bgp templates:
>
> ...What...? ...Why?
>
> At what scale should one consider dumping peer-group? When should one
> switch to templates? How about a mix of groups AND templates?
>
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:31:47PM +, Bob Arthurs wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A colleague recently told me not to use BGP peer groups because he
>> insists that there a drawbacks to using them.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any drawbacks to peer groups
>>
>> I dug the
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:31:47PM +, Bob Arthurs wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A colleague recently told me not to use BGP peer groups because he
> insists that there a drawbacks to using them.
>
> Does anyone know of any drawbacks to peer groups
>
> I dug the following up on the Cisco websit
Hi all,
A colleague recently told me not to use BGP peer groups because he insists that
there a drawbacks to using them.
Does anyone know of any drawbacks to peer groups
I dug the following up on the Cisco website:
"Cisco IOS Software Releases earlier than 11.1(18)CC have the
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