>> The dev guys want to be able to poke at the BGP feeds directly and do *magic* that standard router aren't capable of.
This should scare you in a significant manner. -Jack Carrozzo On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Graham Beneke <gra...@apolix.co.za> wrote: > I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop on > all the eBGP sessions. Basically all upstreams, downstreams and peers will > eBGP with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be some kind > of quagga or similar box. The dev guys want to be able to poke at the BGP > feeds directly and do *magic* that standard router aren't capable of. > > My gut feel is that this is a bad idea. Besides anything else it makes sane > link state detection very challenging - especially where we have multiple > sessions with a peer. > > Is their any BCP or operational experience that agrees or disagrees with my > gut. ;-) > > -- > Graham Beneke > >
