BGP Route Reflector

[lagapidis (Lazarus Agapidis)]

Hello Muhammad

Take a look at this post to get a better understanding of shadow RR.

BGP Shadow Route Reflector

Hello Sushanth You can find out more about route reflectors in BGP in general at this lesson: Now a shadow route reflector, also known as a diverse-path route reflector, is a route reflector that distributes the second best path, also known as the diverse path, to a destination. The purpose of such a setup according to Cisco: The BGP Diverse Path Using a Diverse-Path Route Reflector feature overcomes the lack of path diversity in an AS containing route reflectors. This feature is meant …

You can also find some best practices designs for BGP route reflectors for service network architectures at this Cisco documentation.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz