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Re: Q on what IGP routing protocol to use for supplying only gateway a

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Thu Sep 14 14:29:18 2006

From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:05:00 GMT
To: william@elan.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


..and from an operational perspective, GLBP works relatively
well.

$.02,

- ferg

-- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> 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.

Are you doing anycasting or something?

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.

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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