[c-nsp] BGP Path Selection and next-hop reachability (IGP vs BGP)

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Sun Dec 2 06:51:31 EST 2012


Hi,

On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:37:36PM +0000, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> Ack.. BGP in IOS will use whatever valid route to resolve the next-hop,
> including a BGP route (which could be perfectly valid in some specific
> scenarios). 
> You need to configure selective address tracking to avoid this to happen.
> With an appropriate "bgp nexthop route-map .." config, for example only
> considering loopbacks or only OSPF or connected routes, BGP would consider
> 5.5.5.5 unreachable, and ignore this path for the best-path calculation.

Mmmmh.  This sounds like interesting stuff, but unfortunately, my Google-fu
is failing me today - all I turn up is the normal "set ip next-hop..."
stuff inside "neighbour 1.2.3.4 route-map foo".

Oli, can you point us to some documentation and/or examples for this?

gert
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