[150980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions about anycasting setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Fri Mar 9 04:33:10 2012
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:32:18 +0100
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net>
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Re Bill,
pete@altadena.net (Pete Carah) wrote:
> > Well, let's say, using Quagga/BIRD might not really be best practice for
> > everybody... (e.g., *we* are using Cisco equipment for this)
> Actually there is a *very* good reason why many (most?) anycast
> instances use quagga/BIRD/gated/etc
> to speak bgp (or even ospf for internal anycast) which using a Cisco (or
> any separate router) usually won't accomplish.
Please enlighten me...
Elmar.
