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Re: VRFs on ASBRs with inter-AS VPNs[sic]

  • From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:41:37 +0100
  • CC: "Mpls-Ops (E-mail)" <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
  • Organization: Signature: http://www.employees.org/~raszuk/sig/
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:43:47 -0500
  • To: Krzysztof Szarkowicz <kszarkowicz@freemail.hu>


I am saying that any filtering on ASBRs is not too good. Creating vrf
instances just for the filtering purpose is of course even worse (it
populates routes to VRF's RIBs and FIBs) which other then waisting the
CPU and RAM is simply useless as they will never be used for forwarding. 

Alternatively I am proposing to filter the routes on a vpnv4 route
reflectors feeding the ASBRs. 

Rgs,
R.

> Krzysztof Szarkowicz wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Raszuk" <raszuk@cisco.com>
> To: "Roumen Doukov" <rdoukov@orchestream.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: VRFs on ASBRs with inter-AS VPNs[sic]
> 
> (...)
> >
> > The dummy vrfs Morgan has noticed on ASBR or vpnv4 RR is nothing else
> > then screwed examples and confusion to customers. We never required them
> > !!! So just forget about it and go on to look for better samples of
> > configuration :).
> >
> (...)
> > How to control the amount of vpnv4 routes on Inter-AS ASBR ->
> >
> > (the worst you can do is to play with dummy vrfs !!!)
> >
> > Recommendations:
> >
> > A) Have a special single bgp community for exportable to inter-as peer
> > vpnv4 routes - you set the filter once on ASBR and done.
> >
> > B) Do the bgp inbound filetering on receved bgp vpnv4 routes
> >
> 
> Could you elaborate more why community filtering is better that RT filtering caused by dummy vrfs on ASBR?
> 
> Krzysztof

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