Hi,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:57:46PM +0000, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) wrote:
> The problem with peer-groups is that today's high end routers
> don't generate updates to peer-groups.
> Peer-groups are only a convenience for configuration.
> High end routers group peers automatically into update groups
> and generate updates to the update group.
> Even update groups have sub divisions to which the generated updates
> may or may not be copied to.
> This is done for efficient update generation with thousands of peers.

Which is an implementation detail, really.

If I configure 100 neighbours and one BMP exporter to be in "the same
peer-group" (with the same export policy), I expect them to see the same 
prefixes, in general - except for those that are down, slow, and what
other per-peer things might happen that shoves one of them into a different
update groups.

If they have different export policies, I might want one "BMP exporter" per
export policy - or inheritance group, or neighbour-group, or whatever.

("100" is not an arbitrarily high number, it might actually be low, when
talking about peers at major IXPs, that - with a few exceptions - all 
have the same export policy today, namely "our customer cone, except if
the no-export-to-IXP community is set, prepend if prepend-to-IXP community
is set")

Gert Doering
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