RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers

["Mike Bernico" <mbernico () illinois net>]

Thanks so much for all the feedback.  All your input has been extremely
helpful.  

Just to clarify:

In our network core all customer routes are summarized and carried in
iBGP. That was a recent change of mine.   We use EIGRP to carry loopback
and next hop information.  I'm working on migrating us to IS-IS
currently.  (Hmm...that last sentence probably just opened up another
can of worms...)  At the network edge we use heavily filtered EIGRP.  

I was already leaning towards static routes, based on this groups input
I would say that it will be a new priority.

Thanks again

Mike 





-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Robertson [mailto:bruce () greatbasin net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:09 AM
To: Mike Bernico
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers 

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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