[j-nsp] route into inactive state

[Stefan Fouant]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Joseph Soricelli <joe at proteus.net> wrote:
> If you want the BGP route to be in the table but not active you will need
> that same route in inet.0 from a different protocol with a lower protocol
> preference.
>
> I'm trying to get a better idea of the ultimate goal here. I'm assuming that
> you are not in the forwarding path for the routes in question and that the
> advertised BGP routes will have traffic flowing across different routers in
> the network. If these assumptions are correct (and you know what happens
> when you assume!!) then you could add a static route to discard which will
> be active in inet.0 and make the bgp routes inactive.

I thought about that too Joe, but I guess that largely depends on the
number of routes we are dealing with.  Might be a bit unwieldy if he's
dealing with a large number of routes...

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