Re: RRs

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net> Mon, 21 March 2005 15:21 UTC

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Venkat,

> Answers Inline...

see in-line...

> ________________________________
> 
> From: l3vpn-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of John Smith
> Sent: Tue 3/15/2005 8:28 PM
> To: l3vpn@ietf.org
> Subject: RRs
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.=20
> 
> 
> [2] The RR would be peered up with a couple of BGP PE routers. 

The RR is likely to peer with more than just "a couple of BGP PE routers".

> It would reflect (following the rules laid out for RRs) all the BGP 
> VPN routes it learns from one PE router to the other PE router without 
> modifying the NEXT_HOP. It does not even need to
> look at the extended communities for doing that, unless some ORF has 
> been advertised by a PE router.
> 
> It is true.

RR may use Route Target Constrain (draft-ietf-l3vpn-rt-constrain-01.txt)
instead of ORF.

Yakov.