Re: BGP on dialup links?
Eric Sobocinski (sobo@merit.edu)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:08:10 -0400
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 at 12:19 PDT, patrick@namesecure.com wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
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> > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 patrick@namesecure.com wrote:
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> > >I think you are talking about Livingston's implementation of BGP. Cisco
> > >has iBGP specifically designed for use as an IGP.
> >
> > Not so. iBGP is solely for distributing routing information among several
> > border routers that speak eBGP. It is not meant as an IGP.
>
> Bah, I seemed to remember someone running iBGP as an IGP.... My mistake...
You probably remember correctly: I also can think of a couple ISPs
doing this. They shouldn't be. iBGP makes a really awful IGP, and
Stephen is right on for what it was intended.