Auto Discover Virtual Private Network Using Border Gateway Protocol Route Reflector

Abstract

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is one of the communication technologies that allows users to connect to public networks and allows to use, send, and get information as if the network were a private network. However, a VPN becomes complicated if a company has branch offices spread across many places and implements a full mesh method. In a full mesh network, each branch office is required to be able to communicate with the head office or fellow branch offices, so each branch office must make BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) peer to the head office and also to other branch offices. BGP route reflector is one solution in implementing a full mesh network. The experimental hypothesis in this study uses BGP Non-Route Reflector requires 15 BGP Peers while the results of this research using BGP Route Reflector only require 5 BGP Peers. By using BGP Route Reflector is no longer needed to create BGP Peer at each branch office to the head office, then the head office will be Reflectors for all existing routers. The conclusion in this research can be stated that the entire network can automatically find other networks that are integrated. Network quality testing found that the highest jitter occurred at 9.76 ms while for the highest packet loss at 2.15%.