[c-nsp] IOS XR BGP

[Keegan Holley]

2011/11/28 Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>

> On Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:01:35 AM Keegan Holley
> wrote:
>
> > There's no family aggregate in cisco.  That's one of the
> > reasons people buy junipers in the first place.
>
> Definitely not us :-).
>
> If we're dying for such a feature and it's the only thing
> standing between us and a Cisco, and the Cisco is the
> preferred device for 99% of what we need, we'll find a way
> to get our results with the Cisco.
>
> Although this feature is commonly-used by Juniper folk (we
> don't use it on our Juniper's), it's not worth a deal-break,
> IMHO. But then again, that's just us :-).
>
> I never said it was a deal breaker.  Definitely a nice to have though.
 It's cleaner to have a route type for aggregates than a static null0 route
with the same default preference of a static route.  Another is not having
eBGP routes preferred over iBGP route.  At the risk of starting yet another
trite cisco vs. juniper thread, what do you mean by preferred device?