On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za> wrote:
I have been asked to investigate moving an entire network to multi-hop on all the eBGP sessions. Basically all upstreams, downstreams and peers will eBGP with a route reflector located in the core. This RR will be some kind of quagga or similar box. The dev guys want to be able to poke at the BGP feeds directly and do *magic* that standard router aren't capable of.
My gut feel is that this is a bad idea. Besides anything else it makes sane link state detection very challenging - especially where we have multiple sessions with a peer.
I have not tried yet, but you could have a look at [1]. Perhaps it could be extended to match your needs. Do you run an IGP? Hannes [1] http://kbfd.sourceforge.net/