[MLB-WIRELESS] OSPF BGP

Brenton D. ivile01 at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 22 14:10:12 EST 2005


Ill put up a really basic sample config. On the Wiki
And ill have a part where you can add your own asn.
I was thinking that we should have a 5 number gap between each person BGP 
asn, just in case they have more than one router(like me).
so basically we have room for 1000 routers 64512 to 65534
which i doubt there will be more than 50 running bgp in the near future.(as 
some only support ospf)

so node fut would have the bgp asn 64515 (just leave the first few free)
            fuu would have the bgp asn 64520
            gho would have the bgp asn 64525
and so on...  unless you have on the node page that they request a BGP 
asn(s)  from melb-wireless.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
To: "'Brenton D.'" <ivile01 at yahoo.com.au>; "'Nigel'" <thenigel at hotmail.com>; 
<melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] OSPF BGP


> So, Brenton, cutting it right down, your BGP file looks like this:
>
> !
> hostname bgpd
> password XXXXX
> enable password XXXXX
> !
> router bgp 7675
> bgp router-id 10.10.129.145
> redistribute ospf
> redistribute connected
> !
> ! DAN's COMMENTS: you probably don't need redistribute connected as you've
> already declared your network
> ! In Quagga the routing protocol automatically redistributes any routes
> declared with the network statement
> ! Also, to be precise, the melbourne wireless network is entirely inside 
> the
> 10.10.0.0/16 supernet
> !
> network 10.0.0.0/8
> neighbor 10.10.128.97 remote-as 7676
> !
> access-list all permit any
> ! You probably don't need this access-list because you haven't specified 
> any
> route-maps
> log stdout
>
>
> That's as simple as a BGP file gets really - and if we weren't using OSPF
> you could get rid of the redistribute ospf statement too.  You only need 
> to
> add neighbor lines each time you directly connect to a new BGP neighbor.
> BGP gets complicated when you have multiple routes/routers/subnets within
> the one AS.  If every node has their own AS it's quite easy.
>
> I'm considering writing a set of scripts that will automagically create
> Quagga/BGP config files from NVRAM variables or a very basic config file,
> and that will exchange AS information with neighbors via DHCP.  So 
> basically
> you won't have to do anything (if you don't want to) except enter your IP
> and AS addresses/numbers to start with.
>
> I'm thinking of running BGP at node GHO alongside OSPF.  We should let GHO
> settle and make sure it's stable for a few weeks before we try anything, 
> but
> I think it would be worth testing.
>
> How about someone create a BGP-Trial wiki page where we write down our AS
> numbers for our nodes?  It should just be for testing, but it means we can
> test BGP in our own local clusters.  It doesn't matter if ASNs within a
> cluster are contiguous or not - that's the beauty of BGP - you can choose
> any number you want, so long as it isn't someone else's.  We need to 
> choose
> our numbers from the IANA Private Use ASN space - being 64512 to 65534,
> inclusive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan 


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