[c-nsp] ospf between me and customer - design ?

[Peyton Koran]

If they don't have any other Internet feed but you, and you have assigned
the IP addresses, stub the area.  This will keep updates minimal, and allow
you to provide them the service they require.  You might want to look at som
distribute lists, but the stubbing should take care of it.


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Peyton Koran
Uplogix, Inc.
512-857-7026
pkoran at uplogix.com


> From: matthew zeier <mrz at intelenet.net>
> Organization: InteleNet Communications, Inc.
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:27:29 -0800
> To: Peyton Koran <pkoran at uplogix.com>
> Cc: "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ospf between me and customer - design ?
> 
> 
> 
> Peyton Koran wrote:
>> Do they have their own internet connection?
> 
> No, soley through me.
> 
> We're having too many STP issues with them on the same VLAN across
> multiple drops and doing HSPR or VRRP (they're non-Cisco) so the thought
> was to move to two /30s, two seperate VLANs and run something else.
> 
> BGP could be an option, however, no one (other than me) wants to run BGP
> on the 6509s because of an issue* that happened last summer with BGP.
> So I appear stuck with OSPF for the time being.
> 
> 
> * turned out to be an IOS bug that was triggered when the box was
> running BGP and had static routes.  That's since been fixed but the PHBs
> are still timid.
> 
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