[44072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: redistribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Nov 3 13:39:42 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:38:56 -0800
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>> you want to redistribute the bgp routes learned at the exchange point
>> into your dynamic igp so,
> Even in a small country (perhaps a poor country), with old equipment, etc.
> is this nowadays ever better than carrying it in iBGP?
external ----- expensive ------ agggregation ------- exchange
transit link router point
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some cust2
custs
if you don't, then traffic from cust2 to customers of exchange peers will
trombone across the expensive link.
randy
