[c-nsp] OSPF clarification

Brian Spade bitkraft at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 14:13:29 EST 2009


Thank you Phil and Steinar for clarifying.  This is a very interesting
approach that I plan to investigate more on my network.  Thanks!!

/bs

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM, <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

> > > Or put them in IBGP.
> > >
> > Can you elaborate?  Why would one want to put edge VLANs into IBGP?
>  Thanks
> > for clarifying.
>
> If the alternative is to have them in your IGP, IBGP is probably a
> better alternative. You *really* want your IGP to be as stable as
> possible. BGP can handle many more prefixes, and also handles prefix
> instability better than your IGP.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>


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