[c-nsp] DS1 provisioning using IP Unnumbered vs /30s

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Gert Doering <> wrote on Friday, February 06, 2009 10:39:

>> ip route X.X.X.X 255.255.255.248 Serial10/1/0/3:0 name CustomerRouteA
> 
> One can tack a *name* to routes?  Need to test this :-)
> 
> Does this name get carried in IGPs?  Or is it just there in the config
> to document things?

this name stays local to the router, and was/is required for Large-Scale
Dial-out (LSDO) where the router performed an AAA/Radius request to
retrieve dial information, and used the name for this.. Dial - sigh -
almost feels like legacy technology ;-)

But I agree, it's a nice way of documenting things :)

	oli