August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
Route reflector configuration may now be specified on a per-AF basis, providing a considerable amount of flexibility over the old "centralized" method. This section discusses both old and new styles of configuring route reflection.
With the old style, route reflector (RR) client properties were specified globally, and the configuration applied to all AFs negotiated with its clients. The RR knew that it had to reflect routes to and from clients by specifying route-reflector-client for a particular neighbor or IBGP peer group. The following is an example in which the IBGP peer 1.1.1.1 is made a route reflector client for both unicast and multicast IPv4 prefixes:
router bgp 109 neighbor 1.1.1.1 remote-as 109 nlri unicast ...
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