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Re: Mikrotik BGP Question


From: Ingo Flaschberger <if () xip at>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 01:42:59 +0200 (CEST)

Dear Lorell,

My question is about BGP on the Mikrotik platform.  The guy who I am
supplanting swears that we are supposed to be bringing the second internet
link to the same place as the first internet link for BGP to work properly.
Obviously that is not true with major brand routers which would do the BGP
job just fine.  (And he's the same guy that has bridged this whole network,
so it is easy to disbelieve his opinion.)  But maybe he knows that Mikrotik
can't perform BGP in the same way that other routers can.

So here's the question.  Is there something about running BGP on a Mikrotik
platform that precludes having the internet connections come in at different
locations?

That depends on the netwoek in between this two locations.
There could be a lot of good reasons why this is no good idea; please bring some light into this.

Kind regards,
        Ingo Flaschberger



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