3Com Switch 8800 Configuration Guide Chapter 21 BGP Configuration
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21.2.15 Configuring BGP Route Reflector
To ensure the interconnection between IBGP peers, it is necessary to establish a fully
connected network. If there are many IBGP peers, large overhead is needed to
establish a fully connected network.
Route reflecting can solve the problem. Route reflector is the centralized point of other
routers, and other routers are called the clients. The client is the peer of the route
reflector and switching the routing information with it. The route reflector will reflect the
information in order among the clients.
Router
EBGP
EBGP
Route reflector
Route reflected
Route updated
Router A Router B
Router C
Router
EBGP
EBGP
Route reflector
Route reflected
Route updated
Router A Router B
Router C
Figure 21-1 The route reflector diagram
In Figure 21-1, Router C is a route reflector with two peer clients: Router A and Router B.
Router A sends to Router C the update packet from an external peer. Router C sends
the update packet to Router B. After using reflecting technology, you do not need to
establish a connection between Router A and Router B. You only need to connect
Router C to Router A and Router B respectively.
If a BGP router is not either a reflector or client, we call the BGP router non-client. You
still need connect non-clients to reflectors and non-clients.
You only need to configure route reflecting for the route reflector. When configuring the
route reflector, you must specify the routers to serve as clients.

I. Configuring the route reflection between clients

Perform the following configuration in BGP view.
Table 21-35 Configure the route reflection between clients
Operation Command
Enable route reflection between clients reflect between-clients
Disable route reflection between clients undo reflect between-clients