route server
{{Short description|Type of server instrumental to network access point operations
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{{Use American English|date=January 2019}}
{{update|date=July 2017}}
A route server is a type of Server that is used in Network engineering. The original role of a route server was to be an easily accessible source of Routing information about a particular network, for other machines as well as for remote network engineers that would need that information to troubleshoot network issues.{{Cite web |title=TOOLS - Route Servers |url=https://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/troubleshooting/tools/route_servers.shtml |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=www.inetdaemon.com}}
Modern implementations have taken on more roles, the most common being Route aggregation. The Border Gateway Protocol normally requires Peers to maintain sessions with every other peer they could potentially send or receive traffic from, but a route server can aggregate these sessions and make them available for several peers.{{Cite web |last=www.oberon.nl |first=Oberon Amsterdam |title=AMS-IX Route Servers {{!}} AMS-IX Amsterdam |url=https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/ams-ix-route-servers |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=www.ams-ix.net}}{{Cite web |title= Configuring Quagga as a Route Server |url=https://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs/docs-multi/Configuring-Quagga-as-a-Route-Server.html |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=www.nongnu.org}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book | first1 = Jeff | last1 = Doyle | first2 = Jennifer | last2 = DeHaven Carroll | title = Routing TCP/IP | volume = 2 | publisher = Cisco Press | date = April 2001 | isbn = 1-57870-089-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/routingtcpip00jeff }}
- {{Cite book
| first1= Xicheng | last1= Lu
| first2= Wei | last2 = Zhao
| first3 = Wei | last3 = Zhao
| title = Networking and Mobile Computing
| publisher = Springer-Verlag | location = New York |date=August 2005
| isbn = 3-540-28102-9
}}
References
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External links
- {{Cite web
| url = http://www.inetdaemon.com/tools/route_servers.shtml
| publisher = INetDaemon Training
| title = Route Servers
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- {{Cite web
|url = http://www.merit.edu/networkresearch/projecthistory/routeserver/
|publisher = Merit Network Inc
|title = Route Server Next Generation
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100528001828/http://www.merit.edu/networkresearch/projecthistory/routeserver/
|archive-date = 2010-05-28
}}
- {{Cite web
| url = http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs/docs-multi/Configuring-Quagga-as-a-Route-Server.html
| publisher = Quagga Project
| title = Route Server
}}
- {{Cite web
| url = https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/ams-ix-route-servers
| publisher = AMS-IX
| title = AMS-IX Route Servers
}}