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Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Robertson)
Wed Jan 29 14:14:05 2003

To: "Mike Bernico" <mbernico@illinois.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:51:08 CST."
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:09:17 -0800
From: Bruce Robertson <bruce@greatbasin.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


We switched to BGP just recently, before things got out of hand.  I highly
recommend that you do so.  It really does work better.  It's very nice seeing
your OSPF config carry essentially just the loopback interfaces.

> In particular I'm wondering about the thousands of lines of
> configuration used to make static routes work.

You don't say whether you're using Cisco, but recent IOSes have no trouble
with huge configurations.  You may have to use 'service compress-config'.

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Bruce Robertson, President/CEO				     +1-775-348-7299
Great Basin Internet Services, Inc.			fax: +1-775-348-9412
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