[c-nsp] General BCP for ibgp maximum-paths to 0.0.0.0

[Nick Hilliard]

On 19/10/2012 00:08, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> And redistribution can lead to accidentally matching things you didn't mean 
> to match, which is usually a lot worse. If you have to ask, I personally 
> recommend erring on the side of caution and use an explicit network 
> statement. :)

That's why you do this on an out-of-the-way sort of box like a route
reflector or something, where people aren't going to be adding in static
routes as a matter of course.

> But in this case it doesn't matter, because 0/0 is actually a special case 
> for IOS.
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3/iproute/command/reference/ip2_n1g.html#wp1037042

True, and there are other ways of handling defaults than just using
default-originate on ibgp.

Nick