I have never had a problem keeping a route in the FIB using a static to
null0 with an admin distance of 250. I think there might be an issue if the
distance is 255, unreachable.
Rod
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Christian [mailto:CMartin@mercury.balink.com]
> Sent: Friday, 21 July 2000 10:35 p.m.
> To: 'Tatsuya Kawasaki'; cisco-nsp@iagnet.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] Question about BGP routing damping
>
>
> The announcing router must have an exact match entry in the local FIB in
> order to announce the route. The one exception is when creating
> aggregates,
> in which case, only a prefix-match must be made. If an
> 'internal' or local
> path is not available, the prefix will be withdrawn, thus causing
> route-flapping. Most get around this by routing their static
> announcements
> to null0 with a high distance. Some applications require you to set this
> distance to something less than 200, some not.
>
> chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tatsuya Kawasaki [mailto:tatsuya@kivex.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:56 PM
> > To: cisco-nsp@iagnet.net
> > Subject: [nsp] Question about BGP routing damping
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a simple bgp question.
> >
> > In the BGP statement, we defined the network.
> >
> > I thought network statement in the bgp statement is
> > independent of internal routing protocol.
> > Even if we lost the connectivity to a network,
> > which does not cause BGP routing damping or does it?
> >
> > Only time that BGP routing damping occurs when you lose the connection
> > to peer provided that we do not change any configuration change?
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> >
> > Tatsuya
> >
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