BGP Confederation over Route Reflector

Thu Sep 10 17:20:52 UTC 2009

I would say confeds are more appropriate for larger ibgp networks.
You can have reflectors inside confederations.  See the BGP chapter of
the JNCIP book.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Buraglio, Nicholas D
<buraglio at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Lots of things can be used to determine how you decide to set up your
> BGP peers.  https://www.juniper.net/customers/csc/documentation/techdocs/downloads/pdf/350010.pdf
>  has a decent amount of information on some of the differences that
> can help you decide how to set up your peerings.
>
> nb
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> On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:52 PM, devang patel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> What are the advantages of BGP Confederation over Route Reflector? I
>> mean
>> when one should decide to deploy BGP Confederation over Route
>> Reflector
>> deployment?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Devang Patel
>>
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