Re: [nsp] OSPF to customers

From: jlewis@lewis.org
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 00:41:20 EST


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Lee Waskevich wrote:

> Just curious if anyone out there as a service provider is running OSPF with
> Customer routers who have multiple connections to the same provider, but
> these connections are such (over multiple mediums) that a weighted static
> route will not work. Since the protocol has to die for the other route to
> pick up. Pleae let me know any examples (Areas used--stub or such) and/or
> concerns, warnings. Thanks

OSPF really doesn't lend itself to route filtering. For that reason, I'd
say OSPF to customers would be a bad idea. Why not do BGP instead and
just not send them any more routes than they need?

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