[c-nsp] Injecting Routes Remotely

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:25:06AM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > if you put the linux box inline why bother with nat, you can just perform
> > the static routing towards the nas thats required.. i posted a workable
> > solution before that was basically that.
> 
> I'd go for BGP.  That way, no change to the physical network layout needs to
> be done (no additional boxes in the packet path), and you can insert the route
> with a BGP next-hop pointing to the RAS server in question.
> 
> BGP has its own caveats, but I think it's a lot less intrusive than all the
> other variants (NAT, inline Linux boxes, ...)

sorry 'earlier post' was a few days ago.. yes i suggested injecting bgp to the 
hop before the nas with next-hop of the nas

of course you will still need somewhere to put the bgp in, something like zebra 
on the radius server

Steve