Track 2 - Internet Routing and IP Network management (7-Oct-96)

Autonomous Systems and EGP

2) New BGP Features

A) Route Reflection

1) Technical Discussion

  1. Diagram of the Route Reflection

  2. Route Reflection Scales the Internal BGP Mesh

  3. Route Reflector can re-advertise routes from internal peers

  4. Route Reflector acts as reflector for cluster of clients (cluster-id)

  5. Loop Proection provided by adding the Cluster-id to the path. You detect a loop if you are a route reflector and a cluster-id of your own.