[c-nsp] eigrp and ospf on same switch

Dan Letkeman danletkeman at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 20:10:58 EST 2008


That makes sense.  This is just for an edge subnet on the network so
there will never be redundancy to it, so it should be fine.

Thanks,
Dan.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Ben Steele <ben at internode.com.au> wrote:
>
>  On 03/03/2008, at 2:24 AM, Dan Letkeman wrote:
>  >
>  > In what kind of scenario can redistributing both routing protocols
>  > cause a routing loop?
>
>  Lots, especially anything with redundancy built in, essentially you
>  need 2-ways into the network, this is where the confusion will come in
>  for the routers as it can create blackhole's for subnets doing mutual
>  redistribution throughout the place, just have a google around for
>  some more detailed explanations i'm sorry but I don't have time to go
>  into huge detail right now and it would make more sense to you with
>  some diagrams.
>
>  As someone else stated in your scenario mutual redistribution isn't
>  going to hurt you as you have no alternate path and a very simple
>  network, in your case summarized statics should've sufficed unless the
>  addressing scheme was all over the place :)
>
>  Ben
>


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