Re: Best routing protocol for Livngston

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:44:46 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Tim Flavin wrote:

> > Yah, BGP would be one way to go if going to multiple providers, BTW:
> > You would NEVER use bgp inside your network, would you? But im sure you
> > know this.
>
> You would use BGP inside your own network if say you have different
> routers connected to the outside world and wanted each to know about each
> other.

Youd use BGP between the 3 routers and your providers.

> I do just this, I have 3 routers talking BGP to the outside world, then
> router 1 and 2 talk BGP to each other, as well as 1 and 3 talk to each
> other, router 1 tells router 2 what it's learned from router 3, but router
> 3 is at an exchange point, so it only needs to know OSPF routes on my
> internal network.

Thats what I said/meant/whatever. 8-}

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