[c-nsp] BGP routes co-existing with different local-preference

[Niels Bakker]

* bambi at Hughes.com.au (David J. Hughes) [Wed 26 Oct 2005, 02:36 CEST]:
>Pete, of course it _can_ be done.  I think we all know enough about BGP 
>here to agree on that.  However I'm yet to see a single transit 
>provider who provisions eBGP between loopbacks.  I doubt they'd be 
>happy setting it up as multi-hop either.  Also, you will not be running 
>OSPF with their router so you wouldn't see their loopback fall out of 
>your IGP anyway.

Oh, I've done that.  It's nicer to have just one BGP session when you 
have two E1's to one provider (for capacity, not necessarily 
redundancy), rather than two eBGP sessions, one on each interface.


	-- Niels.

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