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Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices
From: Justin Shore <justin () justinshore com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:01:07 -0600
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Heck, you could store all that in Rancid .. even cvs/svn
I should have said it earlier when I mentioned config backups. I'm already a heavy user of RANCID, archiving my configs hourly. Been using it since right around v2.0-2.1 which would be several years ago (feels like a lifetime). So my config backups are more than taken care of. What I'm interested in is if I should also document the PE-CE BGP config details elsewhere or if I should just leave them in the PE and let my backups cover me.
Part of what's driving this is my desire to create a book of templates for our assorted product offerings that covers both PEs and CEs. Eventually I won't be able to handle everything myself and staff will have to be added. Eventually we'll have to separate operations, engineering, security and maybe even install/turnup tasks. I'd like there to be a solid practices established and documented in a solutions bible of sorts before that happens. My brain can only store so much info and I can only do so much in a day. Plus having all these details ironed out sooner rather than later, and documented, will help keep me honest (ie, no band-aides that I plan on removing when I get time <g>). The other added benefit is that as I figure out how to do something rather fancy or in a simple and elegant manner I can document it for my own benefit and others.
So back to the original topics, does anyone have suggestions for CE-facing BGP config or the management and documentation of the CE details? I'm experimenting with peer-policy and peer-session templates right now. I'm sure with dozens or hundreds of peers their benefits would be more evident. So far they only seem to reduce my default-only test peers by 3 lines of config each. I'm sure this would be more saved lines of config if I was doing something more fancy.
Thanks for the input Justin
Current thread:
- Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Justin Shore (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Justin M. Streiner (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Justin Shore (Dec 21)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Chris Owen (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Justin Shore (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Danny Thomas (Dec 21)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Nathan Ward (Dec 21)
- Re: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices Justin M. Streiner (Dec 20)
- RE: Managing CE eBGP details & common/accepted CE-facing BGP practices michael.dillon (Dec 22)