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Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path?
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:24:05 +0200
On Thursday, January 01, 2015 11:37:25 PM Baldur Norddahl wrote:
Is there a good reason to use actual router hardware for the route reflector role?
Nope. It used to be code maturity - but major vendors are supporting service-grade code on VM's.
Even a cheap server has more CPU and memory. If it is not in the forwarding path, this is a computing task - not a move packets at line speed task.
Agree.
Are anyone using Bird, Quagga etc. for this?
Wish I could - to be honest, these don't give me enough comfort for a production network. We use Quagga on FreeBSD for Anycast-this-&-that - from that experience, I'd not use it for backbone routing. YMMV. Mark.
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- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Mark Tinka (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Nick Hilliard (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Mark Tinka (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Rob Shakir (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Jeff Tantsura (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Mark Tinka (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Mark Tinka (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Mark Tinka (Jan 02)
- Re: MPLS VPN design - RR in forwarding path? Nick Hilliard (Jan 02)
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