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
We are putting a private PTP metro ethernet (fiber based) link between the two locations. And both locations will have one internet connection. I am reading that Mikrotik has a memory leak in its BGP implementation. Any more info about this? Sincerely, Lorell Hathcock OfficeConnect.net | 832-665-3400 x101 (o) | 832-782-4656 (c) 713-992-2343 (f) | lorell@officeconnect.net Texas State Security Contractor License | ONSSI Certified Channel Partner Axis Communications Channel Partner | BICSI Corporate Member Leviton Authorized Installer -----Original Message----- From: Ingo Flaschberger [mailto:if@xip.at] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:43 PM To: Lorell Hathcock Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Mikrotik BGP Question Dear Lorell, 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