RE: [j-nsp] route selection

From: mark forest (milo279@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 19:36:54 EST


Robert and Scott,

Thanks for the info. I was going down that same track,
except I was not considering multipath in terms of
nexthop as I should have. I was mostly blinding my
thoughts with nexthops, but only single path. This is
now clear...I appreciate your assistance. BTW, I will
simulate the same in my lab sometime next week and let
you all know if any deviations from what Robert and
Scott have advised....I really dont think things will
be any differant though.

Thanks again,

Mark 'Milo' Forest
--- Robert O'Hara <rohara@juniper.net> wrote:
> Milo - I just recvd an email from one of our very
> best routing
> protocol guys at Juniper, and he made some sense out
> of what you saw in the manual on page 7.
>
> He noted, "A route with 2 next hops is preferred
> over one with only
> a single next hop, since it is more survivable. So,
> if
> you have a BGP route from two BGP NextHop routers,
> and
> you have one IGP nexthop to router A and two IGP
> nexthops
> to router B, we'll prefer the route from B.".
>
> On reflection, this makes a lot of sense.
>
> So, while my last email was accurate, albeit
> lengthy,
> I stand corrected. There is not documentation
> error.
>
> My thanks to Paul Goyette for the clarification.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Bob O'Hara
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark forest [mailto:milo279@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:51 PM
> To: puck
> Subject: [j-nsp] route selection
>
>
> List,
> I have been reading through some info regarding path
> selction as listed on page 7 of the routing and
> routing protocol documentation. In the list of how
> JUNOS selects the route to make active, number 8
> says
> "Prefer paths with larger number of next hops".
>
> If someone can lend some interpretation to this I
> would appreciate it. Each time I attempt to clarify
> it
> myself, I hit the brick wall and find that I am
> human
> and bleed.
>
> thanks in advance for your replys.
>
> milo
>
>
>
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