On Monday 10 May 2010 02:23:42 pm Nam NGUYEN wrote: > I have a small network running IBGP with 2 designated > route reflectors. Everything now is working fine. My > question is that, if the 2 RRs are down for some > reasons, can other routers in the cluster keep > forwarding packets during the down time of RRs? In other > words, will routing table or forwarding table of a > router remain unchanged if its RRs go down?
If the route reflectors are down, the routers won't know of BGP routes after various timers expire. However, they should have some knowledge of IGP routes (I say "some" because your IGP configuration may or may not necessarily permit all routers having knowledge of all IGP routes). You can use IETF Graceful Restart (if supported) between iBGP clients and their route reflectors so they can maintain forwarding state as the route reflectors restart (assuming they plan to restart), however, how long they can do so depends on the configured Graceful Restart timers. Also, any changes in the network during the restart period are not captured, but this may not be a huge problem as they might reflect a negligible % of your overall traffic being switched at the time if the route reflectors return to a functional state in a timely fashion. Cheers, Mark.
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