[j-nsp] Alternatives to floating static routes?

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Tue Oct 3 07:46:56 EDT 2006


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Dario wrote:
> This is the topology:
>                                  [FastEth]
> 	Router Customer 1	------------- |                   [GigaEth]
> 					         |  Cat 2950 --------------- Juniper M40e
> 	Router Customer 2	------------- |
>                                  [FastEth]
...
> BGP (using prepends,...) is a solution but we prefer another one if possible. Any ideas?

Juniper supports BFD with static routes which is suitable in this 
scenario, but unfortunately many other vendors don't do it (at least 
yet).  So whether this is a feasible approach depends on the customer 
routers as well.

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