Name: draft-bonaventure-bgp-route-reflectors-00
Title: The case for more versatile BGP Route Reflectors
State: Active
Authors: Olivier Bonaventure
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-07-14
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the standard interdomain routing
protocol in the Internet. Inside an Autonomous System (AS), the interdomain
routes are often distributed by using BGP Route Reflectors (RR). Today,
most RR are simple BGP routers. We show that by adding intelligence to the
RR, it is possible to improve both the routing and the packet forwarding in
ASes. We show how a versatile RR can help an AS to engineer the flow of its
incoming or outgoing interdomain traffic. We also discuss how a versatile
RR could help to reduce the BGP convergence time or reduce the size of the
routing tables when providing BGP/MPLS VPN services.
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