[47754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP and aggregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Sun May 12 17:00:31 2002
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0205112152090.10575-100000@www.everquick.net> from "E.B. Dreger" at "May 11, 2002 09:58:51 pm"
To: eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net (E.B. Dreger)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In the referenced message, E.B. Dreger said:
> * BGP is an EGP, not an IGP
BGP is one half of an IGP, it is the "where to go" half.
You generally run another IGP along with it to provide the
"how to get there" half. Most folks run isis or ospf to
transport router loopbacks and other next-hop information, but
still transport the majority of routes via bgp.
