[ixpmanager] Route Servers to Route Collectors

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 7 Mar 2018, at 15:03, Diarmuid O Briain wrote:

> Hi,

hi,

an ixp has several tools that need to work;  it helps, that, when you 
think about an IX, you think about these tools, their function, and 
idiosyncratic purposes, separately.  and then, in the context of this 
mailing list, ixpmanager would simply be “a tool, that ties (some/most 
of)the other tools, together”.


> Just wondering if there is a mechanism in IXP Manager to get the Route
> Servers to share their learnt routes with the Route Collectors ?

that assumes that you want to peer the bgp-rc to the bgp-rs.
how would you otherwise setup a bgp-rs peer?
how would you otherwise setup a bgp-rc peer?

:-)


> It seems to me that the task is thankless to get the members to peer 
> with the Route
> Collectors and the Route Servers.

it is not.  in many ixps networks are loathe to peer with route-servers, 
but not with route-collectors.  route-collector sessions can show you 
_more_ prefixes than a filtered route-server session.   -shrug-   it 
really all comes down to  “why are you running this service?”


> If the latter has the routes anyhow why
> not share them directly with the collectors.

that’s a policy issue.  presumably, your membership/participants will 
tell you what they want, and what serves them better?


> This would reduce the problem
> to concentrating on the bi-lateral peer members who do not connect to 
> the
> Route Servers ?

do you support peers filtering their prefixes to the route-server.  if 
you do, then this is a bad idea.  treat all peers equally.

—n.