On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Matthew Herman wrote:
>
> >You ran OSPF to customers? So you were selling them transit and used
> >OSPF? I imagine the evil a customer could do to your network if they had
> > access to an OSPF neighbor router.
>
> I did not say it was bright. They had multiple T-1's and ospf allowed for
> good load balancing without them having to get an AS. They learned routes
> from me but I did not learn from them. That is pretty common I think.
If both links were to you you can do load balacing without an IGP. You
can also do eBGP multihop with a fake AS, that works well. Transit
providers using IGP's these days to customers (like PSInet use to/still
does use it to customers) is pretty much gone.
Brian
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Brian Feeny, CCNP, CCDP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator
ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
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