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Code repository for the O'Reilly book 'Cloud Native Data Center Networking'
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chapter 5: Whom do I talk to? #6

Closed zhaohuabing closed 4 years ago

zhaohuabing commented 4 years ago
  1. In FRR, you can configure the interface over which you want BGP to peer with the neighbor.

What's the implication of " which you want BGP to peer with the neighbor"? Could you please elaborate on that?

  1. They use one of the infinite knobs available to allow the leaves to see one another’s prefixes. This is needlessly complex.

What's the metaphor " infinite knobs" refers to?

ddutt commented 4 years ago

  1. Instead of specifying an IP Address for eBGP to peer with, you can specify an interface name for the peering session.

  2. BGP provides many, many commands to control BGP's advertisement and processing of prefixes. This is what I mean by "infinite knobs". Is that clear?

zhaohuabing commented 4 years ago

That's clear, thank you.