[j-nsp] Troubleshooting BGP

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:26:01PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote:
> I would agree.  I've always been under the impression that the
> advertise-inactive was for people who were too lazy to actually fix their
> underlying routing issues.  But I'd have to say it certainly came in handy
> on more than one occasion during my Juniper lab exams ;)

There are many legitimate reasons why you might need to advertise a
route learned from your IGP via BGP. Keeping a tidy IGP is commendable 
(though there are also many legitimate reasons why you carry extra 
routes in your IGP to act as nexthops for your other bgp routes, vs 
resetting everything to loopback), but IMHO refusing to configure 
advertise-inactive to keep your network working properly in the face of 
what is otherwise a relatively minor nit is pure masochism.

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Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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