Re: SP / Enterprise design (dis)similarities

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Keegan Holley
<keegan.holley () sungard com> wrote:
> 2011/10/11 Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Keegan Holley
> > <keegan.holley () sungard com> wrote:
> > > The definition of clean is also subjective.  There are many who would
> > > run
> > > the IGP only for loopbacks and /30's and force everything into BGP even
> > > at
> > > small scale.  BGP makes it easier to control the routing relationships
> > > between companies and pretty much removes the need for redistribution.
> > > There are trade-offs though, such as load-balancing.
> >
> > just loadbalance toward the next-hop, no?
>
> It depends on the IGP, whether the paths have exactly the same metric and
> whether or not you need to run MPLS.

sure.