Meta Interview Question

How does BGP route reflectors work

Interview Answer

Anonymous

Feb 21, 2018

Instead of establishing an IBGP peering with each and every router of the internal BGP mesh, routers establish IBGP sessions with route reflectors only, resulting scalibility and easy add/remove router from IGP It is strongly recommended that you implement a backup RR for redundancy in case the primary fails, thereby increasing the reliability of your network. With two RRs in one cluster, each should be configured with a cluster ID, which will allow them to recognize updates and discard routes from each other.

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