[169634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP attributes through IGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Turner)
Thu Mar 6 19:19:58 2014
From: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20140306210932.GA8413@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:49:04 +1030
To: Bryan Ashley <bja8180@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Saku Ytti wrote:
>=20
> It's essentially abusing (some what well-defined and interoperable =
abuse) 32b
> tag field for this purpose.
That's pretty much what the OSPF tag and the BGP's synchronisation with =
OSPF were originally intended for.
However it's pretty much a design misfeature and you'd be happier with =
iBGP over a tunnel
-glen=
