[51566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T NYC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Aug 29 17:47:56 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:45:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208291503080.24098-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:09:54PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > > > Has anybody mentioned the benefits of ISIS as an IGP to them.
> > > Link-state protocols are evil, and when they break, they *really* break.
> > > I still do not see a compeling argument for not using BGP as your IGP.
> >
> > Slow convergence.
>
> As well there is the issues of running a full iBGP mesh. I've actually
> been doing it, and now that I'm about to add my 5th router, OSPF is
> looking a lot better than configuring 4 more BGP sessions. I've heard
> some people recommend a route-reflector, but that would mean if the
> route-reflector goes down you're screwed.
Confederations are your friends.
route-map set-igp-community is your friend.
Alex
>
> -Ralph
>
>
>
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