-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Erik, Yes, an iBGP session is possible between A & C. Route Reflectors main purpose was to reduce the iBGP full mesh requirement, thus providing for BGP scalability. If you only have 3 BGP speakers then there is no need, unless you are expecting BGP speaker growth. I would address the lack of redundancy for your BGP sessions. - - ********************************************* Robert Crowe Network Consulting Engineer Advanced Services Cisco Systems, Inc. 7025 Kit Creek Road P.O. Box 14987 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Direct: 919.392.1574 Mobile: 919.323.9972 Fax: 919.392.1574 Pager: 800.365.4578 Epage: rocrowe@epage.cisco.com Email: rocrowe@cisco.com AIM: robert w crowe ********************************************** - -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Erik Sundberg Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:02 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: IBGP Question --- Router Reflector or iBGP Mesh hello, I have a ibgp question? There is a Diagram at http://erik.appscorp.net/bgp/ Which Setup is better, the Router Reflector or the ibgp meshed? What are the positive and negitive to each setup. Which Setup is commonly used / best pratice / More stable Diagram at http://erik.appscorp.net/bgp/ Thanks in Advance Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQd8ZQM6DimsZpmH4EQIlTACgn2iO8ZM+QvtPadP5RreUmg8HNX4AnR/L n3nFZCkoJNWFmvfXqRRpoMQ4 =M/wf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----