[44081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: redistribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nipper, Arnold)
Sat Nov 3 18:25:03 2001
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From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, "Alex Bligh" <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 00:23:30 +0100
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Randy wrote:
> o for many reasons, it is likely the middle router will be an igp, not
> bgp speaker
> o hence very careful redistribution of ebgp to igp, and of igp to bgp
> is useful
>
IMHO it's much cleaner and easier to setup BGP on the router in the middle.
If it's able to carry the routes via IGP it will also be able to do it via
IBGP.
-- Arnold
