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Re: IS-IS or OSPF as BGP IGP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Jul 17 19:20:31 1998

Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:50:28 -0400
To: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=BAIS%l=MERCURY-980717222617Z-5878@mercury.balin
 k.com>

My recommendation is not to redistribute BGP into
any IGP at all. I personally consider that to be
a very dangerous thing to do.

- paul

At 06:26 PM 7/17/98 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:

>All,
>
>Does anyone have any information on redistributing BGP traffic into OSPF
>versus ISIS?  What about just carrying IBGP sessions?  My OSPF database
>is growing, and I'd rather not carry LSAs with BGP routes as well as
>private routes, etc.  Too messy.  By introducing ISIS and using it only
>as a BGP IGP, what can I expect?  Experiences with Cisco gear preffered.
>
>-Christian
>
>

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