Mikrotik BGP Question
Ingo Flaschberger
if at xip.at
Fri May 21 23:42:59 UTC 2010
Dear Lorell,
> My question is about BGP on the Mikrotik platform. The guy who I am
> supplanting swears that we are supposed to be bringing the second internet
> link to the same place as the first internet link for BGP to work properly.
> Obviously that is not true with major brand routers which would do the BGP
> job just fine. (And he's the same guy that has bridged this whole network,
> so it is easy to disbelieve his opinion.) But maybe he knows that Mikrotik
> can't perform BGP in the same way that other routers can.
>
> So here's the question. Is there something about running BGP on a Mikrotik
> platform that precludes having the internet connections come in at different
> locations?
That depends on the netwoek in between this two locations.
There could be a lot of good reasons why this is no good idea; please
bring some light into this.
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
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