[c-nsp] which IGRP?

[Vincent De Keyzer]

Jeff,

I think your question fits the scope of this list, so in my opinion it
deserves an answer - unfortunately I am not an IGP expert. All I can tell
you is that we are also running a small ISP network, and happily using OSPF.
You probably know that EIGRP is Cisco proprietary; another choice is IS-IS
which I know very little about (but have heard good things of).

I respectfully hope that people on the "higher end" of this list will
correct or complete me :)

Vincent


> This should all be covered in fairly entry-level Cisco documentation. Try
> looking at the CCNA libraries - this list is a little on the high end.
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> We're finally adding a third and possibly fourth router to our
> small network, and I'm asking for suggestions about which IGRP to
> run.  We currently have a 7513/RSP4 as our main router.  It has
> our two upstream connections.  We also have a 3640 at a public
> peering point hearing routes from a few peers there and
> announcing ours to them.  We're using iBGP between the 3640 and
> 7513, but with a third router, which we would be migrating one
> uplink to, it seems we'd need to fully mesh and/or set up a route
> reflector if we wanted to continue to use iBGP as our interior
> protocol.
> 
> Instead of iBGP, should we use a routing protocol optimized
> specifically for interior use such as EIGRP, OSPF, etc.?
> Or can it be done satisfactorily with iBGP and a route reflector
> setup?  (Naturally we're talking eBGP to our external peers.)
> 
> Is there a standard practice for this?   IOS is 12.3(13)
> mainline everywhere.
> 
> Jeff C.