Thanks Mark, This helps and definitely shows Im heading in the right direction.
Thanks, On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Mark Tinka <mti...@globaltransit.net>wrote: > On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 03:04:15 PM Joe Marr wrote: > > > What do you use for reflectors, hardware(Cisco/Juniper) > > or software daemons(Quagga)? > > We operate 2x networks. > > One of them runs Cisco 7201 routers as route reflectors, > while the other runs Juniper M120 routers. > > The large Juniper routers were due to particular BGP AFI's > that Cisco IOS does not support (yet). > > > I've been toying with the idea of using Quagga route > > servers to announce our prefixes to our edge routers and > > redistribute BGP annoucements learned from downstream > > customers. > > You can certainly use any device in your network to > originate your allocations. We just use the route reflectors > because it is a natural fit, but you can use any device > provided it would be as stable and independent as a route > reflector. > > The last thing you want is a blackhole or a route going away > because your backhaul failed or your customer DoS'ed your > edge router :-). > > > Only drawback is the lack of support for > > tagged static routes, so it looks like I'm going to have > > to use a network statement w/ route-map to set the > > attributes. > > There was a time when networks were ran without prefix > lists, BGP communities or even route maps. I'm too young to > have ever experienced those times, but I always joke with a > friend (from those times) about how good we have it today, > and how hard life must have been for Internet engineers of > old :-). > > If you have the opportunity, I'd advise against operating > without these very useful tools. > > > Has anyone tried this, or is it suicide? > > I'm sure there are several networks out there that are > intimidated by additional BGP features such as communities, > advanced routing policy, e.t.c. They do survive without > having to deal with this, probably because they're networks > are small and the pain is better than trying something new. > But I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone (except, as > Randy would say, my competitors). > > Mark. >
