Hi, Diverse-path will only send the second best path, and in my case I have three routes not two. In addition to that, every PE will have to peer with the RR via a second session (on the same RR, as I will not deploy a new standalone shadow RR) and this will increase the BGP sessions to the double. Add-path will have a network-wide IOS upgrade for this BGP capability to be supported which is not viable now. So, is there any other recommendation other than the internet VRF with different RDs solution? Regards, Mohamed Kamal Core Network Sr. Engineer On 8/25/2015 11:37 AM, Jeff Tantsura wrote:
Hi,
In your case I¹d recommend to use diverse path, due to its simplicity and non disruptive deployment characteristics. As you know - diverse path requires additional BGP session per additional (second, next, etc) path, in most cases not a problem, however mileage might vary.
To my memory, in Cisco land - it has only been implemented in IOS, not XR, please check.
Cheers, Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Diptanshu Singh <diptanshu.singh@gmail.com> Date: Monday, August 24, 2015 at 10:53 PM To: Mohamed Kamal <mkamal@noor.net> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: BGP advertise-best-external on RR
Yes . In the case of diverse path , shadow route reflector will be the one wherever you enable commands to trigger diverse path computation.
Good thing with diverse path is that the RR-Clients don't have to have any support but bad thing is that it can only reflect One additional best-path( second best path ) .
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On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Mohamed Kamal <mkamal@noor.net> wrote:
It's only supported on the 15.2(4)S and later not the SRE train. I might consider an upgrade.
One more question regarding this, can you configure the RR to be the main and shadow RR?
Mohamed Kamal Core Network Sr. Engineer
On 8/24/2015 9:16 PM, Diptanshu Singh wrote: BGP Add-Path might be your friend . You can look at diverse-path as well .