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BGP confederations are still used in some large SP networks today, mostly because it's hard to transition away from it. However, it hasn't been a recommended so
by philxor 2y ago
BGP confederations are still used in some large SP networks today, mostly because it's hard to transition away from it. However, it hasn't been a recommended solution for scaling BGP for 15+ years now. I had someone approach me recently wanting to deploy them after reading a BGP book written 20 years ago. No.
- windexh8er 2y agoYes, the blog post should follow up with why you would set up this example network with route reflectors (RR) instead.