Route Reflector Client Design Question

Sun May 6 10:29:09 UTC 2018

Mark Tinka wrote:
> On 4/May/18 08:01, Erik Sundberg wrote:
>> My questions is how do I get traffic to go directly between the PE's without going to the Core Routers?
>>
>> 1. Can I enable iBGP between the PE's in a full mesh to allow traffic between the PE's without going to the core's. Or does this break the Route Reflector model?
> 
> You could do, but then you lose the point of the RR in the first place,
> as it's likely your Metro-E nodes will continue to grow, making this

one option potentially worth looking at here would be optimal route 
reflection.  "Potentially" because vendors haven't been shipping ORR for 
long and some implementations are still working themselves through the 
design kink stage.

Nick