Rethinking BGP on the DC Fabric (part 2)

08/02/2021
Rethinking BGP on the DC Fabric (part 2)

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Episode Synopsis



In my last post on this topic, I laid out the purpose of this series—to start a discussion about whether BGP is the ideal underlay control plane for a DC fabric—and gave some definitions. Here, I’d like to dive into the reasons to not use BGP as a DC fabric underlay control plane—and the first of these reasons is BGP converges very slowly and requires a lot of help to converge at all.