[j-nsp] JUNOS Equivalent to CISCO IOS next-hop-self

[Daniel Roesen]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:33:54AM -0700, Pedro Roque Marques wrote:
> > > How changing the next hop attribute for an EBGP learnt route will lead
> > > to routing loops ?
> 
> You can't get routing information loops. BGP route reflection has
> mecanisms to avoid loops.

Correct. Cluster list, specifically. But I wasn't talking about routing
information loops, but forwarding loops.

> You will not get into forwarding loops unless your network design is
> such that clients are in the forwarding path between RRs... which is
> a no-no anyway.

Why is that a no-no? Those setups are perfectly fine.


Best regards,
Daniel