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Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Oct 7 10:12:39 2002

Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:17:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>,
	"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210070026070.3597-100000@ns.istop.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> > 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) ?
> 
> When you setup a secondary ip on an interface
>  int fa0/0
>    ip address a.b.c.d e.f.g.h secondary
> 
> How does it determine where to send the packets?  ARP.
> Which is the same as adding the route described above.
> 

No it is not.  In this case you defined direct connection. IP does not know
about this direct connection without that.  Should you drop that secondary
line.

Alex


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