[j-nsp] Junos Hidden routes

[Stefan Fouant]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Garrido Garcés, Daniel
<dgarrido at indra.es> wrote:
> When you send routes to a BGP neighbor, probably you will receive traffic destined for these networks. If you don´t have this networks
> in your routing table you can´t forward this traffic, so you are creating a black hole.
> Why do you want to do that?

It is not always a requirement that the routes that a given neighbor
advertises will necessarily pass through that neighbor as part of the
forwarding path.  It is perfectly acceptable to set the next-hop to
something other than the advertising router.

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