Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you also needed an IGP in order to use traffic engineering features. It I've never heard of mpls with BGP only in a large network. I have heard of running BGP only on the PE routers for simplicity and running ospf everywhere else just to form the LSP's.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 02:03:42PM -0500, Christopher J. Wargaski wrote: > > IMHO, run BGP (iBGP + eBGP) end to end and life will be much simpler. > > Just running BGP with no IGP sounds... painful. > > Full mesh doesn't scale, and route reflectors just don't work if you have > no routes to the loopbacks... > > For a network with just 2 or 3 routers, yes, "just iBGP" will work fine, > but this thread was about a network with 100 routers. > > gert > > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
