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MPLS/BGP routing question

  • From: Bala Rajagopalan <braja@tellium.com>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:58:26 -0400
  • CC: Eric Gray <EGray@zaffire.com>, Michel Redondo Ferrero <mredondo@idecnet.com>, mpls@UU.NET

Hello,

Curtis Villamizar wrote:

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> Optical switches are not known for the robustness of their BGP
> implementations if they have BGP implementations at all.  They may
> also have more important things to do with their CPU cycles given that
> they do no externalrouting at all.  It would seem to be a relly bad
> idea to run IBGP to the optical switches.
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> I hope that was more clear.

Absolutely not.  It's certainly seems possible to have
a scenario where optical edge switches run E-BGP
with router clients to provide reachability information. Whether
the optical network is a separate AS or a sub-AS is another issue.
What's wrong with this?

Bala


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