[52595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Sun Oct 6 23:39:10 2002
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210070119350.1574-100000@www.everquick.net>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
>
> RD> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 21:05:32 -0400 (EDT)
> RD> From: Ralph Doncaster
>
>
> RD> Not really, what I want is router A to learn that ther is no
> RD> next hop IP- the subnet is on the local ethernet.
>
> As others are saying... it isn't "local". It's not "local"
> unless in the same subnet. Physical topology often correlates
> with higher layers, but it's not strictly 1:1.
Manually configuring a static route in router A would achieve the result:
ip route 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0
However, I'm surprised that there's no dynamic routing protocol that
allows you to do everything you can with static routes.
-Ralph
