User Guide

BGP Overview Configuring BGP
page 4-10 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Advanced Routing Configuration Guide December 2007
In the diagram above, Clients 1, 2, and 3 peer with Reflector 1, and Clients 4, 5, and 6 peer with Reflector
2. Reflector 1 and 2 peer with each other. This allows each BGP speaker to maintain only one BGP
session, rather than a possible seven sessions, as demonstrated below:
AS 100 without Route Reflection