10gbps peering subscriber switch recommendation

Thu Jan 9 04:58:31 UTC 2014

On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 10:33:55 PM joel jaeggli 
wrote:

> There are various reasons why one might take a full table
> on a switch with not not enough FIB, the important part
> of course being the part where you don't install them
> all.

In Metro-E deployments, this is a good use-case when the box 
is providing both IP and Ethernet services to the same or 
different customers out of the same chassis.

It avoids having to run 2x eBGP sessions for the IP services 
(the first being point-to-point eBGP between the switch and 
the customer to get their routes into the network, and the 
second being an eBGP Multi-Hop between the customer and a 
"bigger" box in your core to send them the full BGP table).

If a switch allows you to keep the routes in control plane 
RAM without downloading them into the FIB, you can maintain 
a single point-to-point eBGP session to the customer, 
including sending them the full table, provided you have a 
default route in the switch's FIB to handle actual data 
plane traffic flow from the customer upstream.

Mark.
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