[52599] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Mon Oct 7 00:16:46 2002
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 00:15:40 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "jlewis@lewis.org" <jlewis@lewis.org>,
"E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210070006230.1709-100000@ns.istop.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
OK, I'll bite.
I've been doing ip route statements going on 8 years now, and I can't
imagine why ever -- and how it would even work -- you'd want to ip route a
netblock with a next hop of a multi-access brandcast media. As in, the
next hop is still truly undetermined.
I guess I don't know this because I've never tried it. But, how does the
router determine where to send the packets for a route statement as
specified above (ip route a.b.c.d e.f.g.h f0/0) ?
> So then what do you call a connected route (for an ethernet interface on a
> router)? If you use ethernet, at the edges of your network you HAVE to
> route IP blocks to the ethernet.
>
> -Ralph
>
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