Route Collector

Thu Mar 28 00:13:17 UTC 2002

how is your "collector" attached to your network
as well as to the outside world?

At 09:14 AM 3/26/2002, Chris Pace wrote:

>Yes, it is forwarding bgp routes. However, it has no serial lines connected.
>Do you think it is causing unnecessary traffic ?
>Thanks
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon at NEEBU.Net>
>To: "Chris Pace" <cpace at allmeds.net>
>Cc: "Todd Suiter" <todd at s4r.com>; <nanog at merit.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:02 AM
>Subject: Re: Route Collector
>
>
> > ### 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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