[92344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Q on what IGP routing protocol to use for supplying only gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Thu Sep 14 14:21:28 2006
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:55:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <356153CC-3D8B-4309-9596-E91759FDE1C2@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:35 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
>> Any suggestion as to what IGP protocol is best for this scenario?
>
> This is more of a cisco-nsp question, but probably OSPF, as it's supported
> by the routing daemons on most *NIXes out of the box. I don't know about
> Windows.
If this was 5+ years ago, I'd have said RIP as it works great for
supplying only gateway address, but I want RIP to go RIP and will
not use it again. So yes OSPF seems like best choice, but I was
hoping something simple for gateway-only is available. I've no idea
yet how to deal with Windows (all win2000 and win2003), anybody?
> Are you doing anycasting or something?
Yes, anycasting will be involved but only for very small number of
servers (all linux) - that is kind-of separate issue. The equipment
itself however will only see local gateway addresses (obviously), so
it should not care or know about it.
> If simple redundancy in the default gateway is the goal, another (and
> probably simpler) method is to implement HSRP or GLBP between your routers
> which are serving the hosts in question.
Can't use HSRP in this case (or IVRP or whatever else its called with
non-cisco options) - too long to explain why.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
