300-320 · Question #600
An engineer is designing an IBGP solution and must mitigate the full-mesh requirement without increasing the number of BGP neighbor relationship achieve this goal?
The correct answer is C. Router reflector. A Route Reflector (RR) eliminates the iBGP full-mesh requirement by acting as a central point that reflects routes to all iBGP clients. Clients only need a single iBGP session with the RR instead of sessions with every other iBGP peer, dramatically reducing the number of…
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An engineer is designing an IBGP solution and must mitigate the full-mesh requirement without increasing the number of BGP neighbor relationship achieve this goal?
Options
- AConfederation
- BAS path prepend
- CRouter reflector
- DDirectly connected IBGP peers
How the community answered
(54 responses)- A2% (1)
- B4% (2)
- C93% (50)
- D2% (1)
Explanation
A Route Reflector (RR) eliminates the iBGP full-mesh requirement by acting as a central point that reflects routes to all iBGP clients. Clients only need a single iBGP session with the RR instead of sessions with every other iBGP peer, dramatically reducing the number of neighbor relationships. Confederation (A) also breaks full-mesh but does so by creating sub-ASes, which introduces additional eBGP-like peering between confederation members and increases administrative complexity. AS path prepend (B) is a traffic engineering tool, not a topology solution. Directly connected iBGP peers (D) does not address full-mesh reduction.
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