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["McCallum, Robert" <robert.mccallum@thus.net>]

Personally I don't like connecting between RR's.  I have pushed my company
into peering between ASBR's.

IF you do the RR peering then you open up the good ol security team and the
allocation of RD's etc.  I wouldn't go there, the benefits just don't add up
to the hassles.

Robert McCallum 
CCIE #8757 R&S
01415663448
07818002241 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harpreet Singh [mailto:harpreet.singh@vsnl.co.in] 
> Sent: 14 February 2005 06:26
> To: 'Ramanna, Prakash'; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> Subject: RE: [MPLS-OPS]: Interconnecting MPLS networks
> 
> 
>  You can definitely do this. But there are some issues that 
> you would need to take care of;
> 
> 1. security & how much can you trust the other provider.
> 2. labels on the eBGP session. What you are doing would 
> probably be the
> easiest: connecting using the routers that are ASBRs as well 
> as the eBGP speakers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Harpreet Singh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramanna, Prakash [mailto:Prakash.Ramanna@team.telstra.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:32 AM
> To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: Interconnecting MPLS networks
> 
> 
> Hi ,
> 
>          Does anyone in the group have experience in 
> interconnecting MPLS networks ? Can they give some ideas or 
> lead on this topic?
> 
> One idea I have is to interconnect Route-reflectors between 
> the 2 MPLS networks. These RR will work as ASBR and peer with 
> each other via eBGP.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers !!
> 
> 
> Prakash
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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