[145524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SP / Enterprise design (dis)similarities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Tue Oct 11 01:20:29 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaa=NADOgo=s3vcz9EZn9D6+cHSKMOkVVOobCf4Uqneg4A@mail.gmail.com>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:19:38 -0400
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2011/10/11 Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Keegan Holley
> <keegan.holley@sungard.com> wrote:
> > The definition of clean is also subjective. There are many who would run
> > the IGP only for loopbacks and /30's and force everything into BGP even
> at
> > small scale. BGP makes it easier to control the routing relationships
> > between companies and pretty much removes the need for redistribution.
> > There are trade-offs though, such as load-balancing.
>
> just loadbalance toward the next-hop, no?
>
It depends on the IGP, whether the paths have exactly the same metric and
whether or not you need to run MPLS.
