Chapter 5

1: How should you judge the performance of BGP in your network?
A1: You need to judge the performance of BGP in your network within the context of the network itself. You should baseline the current performance rather than assuming some absolute baseline.
2: What inefficiency does grouping peers by outbound policy overcome?
A2: The cost of copying information from one place in a computer's memory to another place in a computer's memory.
3: What provides configuration grouping for outbound BGP policy without impacting BGP performance?
A3: Peer templates.
4: What provides BGP performance by grouping peers with similar outbound policies without impacting peer configuration?
A4: Update groups.
5: How are BGP updates packed?
A5: All the prefixes with ...

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