Subject: RE: RRs

From: John Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:35:00 +0000 (GMT)

> > >  BGP RR can have customers attached when it is acting as a PE router.
> 
> It is not a good design practice to deploy RR and PE functionality in the 
> same box, if scalability is desired.
> Avoid putting multiple eggs in the same basket.

So what you're essentially saying is that RRs are "generally" used for distributing BGP
VPN routes to other PEs. Yes, this and what Venkat also said makes sense to me.

Thanks,
John
> 
> 
> At 01:02 AM 3/16/2005, John Smith wrote:
> >Thanks Venkat!
> >
> >->
> > > Are the following statements true about BGP Route Reflectors in 
> > BGP/MPLS VPNs:
> > >
> > > [1] We are not required to configure any RDs since most of the times 
> > there would not be
> > > any customers attached to the RRs.
> > >
> > >
> > > This is not always TRUE.
> > >
> > >  BGP RR can have customers attached when it is acting as a PE router.
> >
> >Okay what i had meant was that it is a valid configuration if i dont have 
> >any customers
> >attached to this RR BGP PE router. From your mail it seems YEs, it is 
> >valid to have such
> >conf. That answers the question.
> >
> >Thanks a lot for your time!
> >
> >John
> >
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> 
> 

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