BGP Route Reflector

[sreenath1987]

Hi All,

Can someone help me with a design challenge i am facing, and how i can overcome the same.

My setup looks like below. I fear if routes will be reflected all the way to R1 and R2

[Martin L]

Route Reflectors should be R3 and R4, not R1 and R2 . then u should not have any problems.

[Giuseppe Larosa · Accepted solution]

Hello sreenath1987,

if you are using iBGP sessions on loopbacks and the Route Reflector servers have iBGP sessions with R1 - R4 loopback addresses all declared as route-reflector clients, reflection will happen until at least one device R3 or R4 is alive.

The route reflector client does not need a direct link to RRS, in iBGP the default TTL is 255 and not 1 like in eBGP.

R3 and R4 could be a better choice for the role of RRS as noted by Martin, but your network design is supported.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Martin L]

yes agree, it works but it is not optimal design; i should have said so.
thanks for your input