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Set up direct BGP sessions with your route server peers
Set up direct BGP sessions with your route server peers

How to start with peering

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Written by DE-CIX Consulting Team
Updated over 3 years ago

It makes sense to establish direct peerings with those route server peers with whom you exchange the most traffic and/or those that announce the most prefixes.

Reason is mainly redundancy, also some peers offer more prefixes or higher priorities on direct sessions.

But please be aware that the DE-CIX route servers do filter prefixes, "bad" prefix announcements are filtered out. If you establish direct sessions, you should do that filtering yourself!

The take-away from all this is that it is worth it to establish direct peerings/direct BGP sessions with select route server peers.

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