Let BGP speakers configure their iBGP sessions on their own
· 2006
Abstract
ISPs face many problems with the current iBGP. First, operating iBGP is costly as it requires human configuration and supervision of all the iBGP sessions. This configuration is error prone and hard to troubleshoot. Secondly, the intro- duction of Route Reflectors, to solve scalibility issues, has led to a reduced path diversity within the routers of the network. It has been showned that Losses of Connectivity are often caused by routing failures [1], and iBGP is often responsible of these. This low performance system does not fit for the current Service Level that is required by ISP customers. We thus think that iBGP topologies should not be managed by humans anymore, which would allow less misconfigurations while allowing the fulfillment of other requirements that we present in this paper.
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@unpublished {VPSO06,
title = {Let BGP speakers configure their iBGP sessions on their own},
author = {Virginie Van den Schrieck and Pierre Francois and Sebastien Tandel and Olivier Bonaventure},
year = {2006},
month = {October},
note = {Position Paper, Wired2006 Workshop, Atlanta},
}