Route Collector

Tue Mar 26 14:02:43 UTC 2002

### On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:50:44 -0500, "Chris Pace" <cpace at allmeds.net>
### casually decided to expound upon "Todd Suiter" <todd at s4r.com> the
### following thoughts about "Route Collector":

CP> Is it common or a good idea to have a route collector in a
CP> datacenter/enterprise environment ? We have 1 router that just collects
CP> routes using bgp and ospf, then set all servers to use it as the default
CP> gateway. Is this practical or am I making more work for myself ?

So it's doing more than just collecting routes?  It's also forwarding
traffic?  Is it carrying a full table of eBGP routes too?

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