[20469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP as an IGP (Was Re: IGPs in use)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chrisy Luke)
Wed Oct 14 06:26:16 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:16:20 +0100
From: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
To: Hakan Hansson <hakan@insert.net>
Cc: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu, pdonner@cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981014111800.00a1ddc0@mail.insert.net>; from Hakan Hansson on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:26:10AM +0200
Hakan Hansson wrote (on Oct 14):
> Either you have to configure next-hop-self or use static or use other IGP,
> otherwise you'll end up with flapping routes in your network. BGP cannot
> use a route for next-hop-self address derived by itself, as far as I know.
Well it does and can. But then I suppose it depends on the arbitrary
restrictions certain vendors place on you.
Chris.
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