[52622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Mon Oct 7 13:53:24 2002
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:53:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021007142757.GA16380@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:40:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> > 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, how do you intend on getting traffic *OUT* of this subnet?
> Static arp entries on all the hosts? Proxy arp? It seems like that would
> be a lot more work and much more failure prone in the long run.
What, you don't use a static default route on your end hosts? Are you one
of those crazy types that run RIP on your IIS/NT servers?
-Ralph
