Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path?

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On Friday, January 02, 2015 04:17:37 AM Ca By wrote:

> Ymmv. I have feeling that running a bgp rr on cheap /
> standard / commidity vm is pretty exotic from a support
> perspective.

Not really.

Since July last year.

The worst I've had was the HP server shutting down in a 
London data centre due to environmental overheating.

Beyond that, similar requirements as with a router, if you 
avoid the VM clustering goodness they all preach.

> So running a bgp rr on a vm may make sense in theory, but
> my network control planes are not too busy and vm bgp is
> a unique/ exotic support model.

Amongst very many other things, running an RR on my core 
router means I need to touch my core router code if I want 
that exotic routing feature.

I'd rather not, if my core router (in-path) is really just 
forwarding traffic between PoP's.

But agree, our networks are probably quite different :-).

Mark.

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