[c-nsp] BGP to OSPF redistribution

[David Barak]

----- Original Message ----
From: null zeroroute nullzero.route at gmail.com

> Very good suggestion, however the provider is not sending the internet
> routing table, only our own internal network's routes.  Or are you
> suggesting some providers make mistakes and send full internet tables to a
> private VRF customer?  We already had our layer-2 VPN MPLS provider join our
> network with someone else's, and we learned the hard way why you should
> never ever ever connect a layer-2 switch to that provider, especically one
> that doesn't support turning off VTP on an interface.  Oh yeah and using VTP
> passwords doens't hurt either :)



Why not just use site-to-site BGP across the VPLS provider instead of OSPF?  A simple prepend will make sure that the AS_PATHs work out right, and then all of the ickiness which is redistribution can be avoided.
 
David Barak
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