On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Benny Amorsen <[email protected]> wrote: > "Christopher J. Wargaski" <[email protected]> writes: > >> It just doesn't make sense to run OSPF when all of the links to the >> remote locations will be running BGP. > > Actually it does, in some cases. BGP cannot maintain 2 links to the same > neighbour, and so it does not work if you have redundant links (except > for LACP links and similar). That is when you need OSPF so you can peer > on the loopback addresses. > > It is a bit surprising that no one has bothered to make an extension to > BGP for this purpose, but I guess the OSPF/BGP combination works well > enough. > Doesn't multi-path fulfill this requirement?
Running and IGP is required for next hop resolution (specifically for iBGP, and sometimes eBGP) right? > > /Benny > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
