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Re: IGPs in use
From: Chrisy Luke <chrisy () flix net>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:42:00 +0100
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ben Black wrote:
I would say BGP is an exterior gateway protocol and using iBGP as an IGP is unwise. Much like posting to nanog when you have no clue.
Hm. How do your multiple border routers pass routes between themselves, then? Is that not, by definition, an IGP? Simply because it doesn't have to worry about which "random sized network that might or might not move" goes where doesn't exclude the validity of it's IGP status. I don't know of any other protocol that carries BGP data as an IGP (AS Path, MED's etc) in a way suitable for re-export. Moreover, many people do use it as their sole or predominant IGP, particularly where convergance time because of failure isn't an issue and adjacancies don't need to be built using an LSA model (ie, lack of network or administrative complexity). Chris. -- == chris () easynet net, chrisy () flix net, chrisy () flirble org == Systems Manager for Easynet, part of Easynet Group PLC.
Current thread:
- IGPs in use Andre' Zehl (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Timothy R. McKee (Oct 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IGPs in use Megatron (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Chrisy Luke (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Randy Bush (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use David O'Leary (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Phillip Vandry (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Jared Mauch (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Alex Bligh (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Tony Li (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Chrisy Luke (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Ben Black (Oct 12)
- Re: IGPs in use Chrisy Luke (Oct 13)
- Re: IGPs in use Paul G. Donner (Oct 13)
- BGP as an IGP (Was Re: IGPs in use) Chrisy Luke (Oct 13)