[Xorp-hackers] BGP groups

[Kristian Larsson]

I would like to hear peoples opinion on a group configuration under bgp.
As so often I would like to bring up the "Juniper way" of doing things. In Juniper a normal BGP neighbor would be configured like this:
protocols bgp {
  local-as 1337;
  group My_transit_provider {
    remote-as 1338;
    neighbour 1.3.3.7;
    prefix-list out My_prefixes;
  }
}

Having several peers with the same settings is real easy since you just add another neighbor statement, like this:
protocols bgp {
  group My_transit_provider {
    local-as 1337;
    remote-as 1338;
    neighbour 1.3.3.7;
    neighbour 1.3.3.8;
    neighbour 1.3.3.9;
    neighbour 1.3.3.10;
    prefix-list out My_prefixes;
  }
}

As group doesn't collide with any present BGP commands it would be easy to add and let the old peer statement remain as is to not surprise anyone ;)

Any thoughts?

  Kristian.