Using Bird BGP Daemon as a BGP Route Reflector

In a previous lab exercise, you used BGP route reflectors on core routers to reduce the number of IBGP sessions in your network. BGP route reflection is a pure control plane functionality and does not have to run on a router (or a layer-3 switch). In this lab, you’ll use the Bird BGP daemon as a BGP route reflector.

Lab topology

Expert

This is an expert-level challenge lab. We expect you to know what you’re doing – all you’ll get from us are a few basic Bird setup tricks and the verification guidelines.

Tip

This lab is still under development. Follow blog.ipspace.net or Ivan Pepelnjak on LinkedIn to find out when it will be ready.