Re: BGP no sync and Bootcamp Labs

From: Steven Weber (itweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 19:18:08 GMT-3


   

agreed. there's more than one way to eat a Reese's :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark Salmon

To:
Cc: Groupstudy

Sent: 3/4/01 4:50:37 PM

Subject: Re: BGP no sync and Bootcamp
Labs

Not necessarily. It depends on your design. Here is
how I do it. I configure one

ip address in my as with a VLSM (eg /24). I then use aggregate
address command on

my BGP routers with summary only. I make sure that all the necessary
addresses are

reachable via IGP by all BGP routers. But again it sdepends on
the design. If

there is only 1 BGP router in the AS (as long as I am not prevented from
doing so) I

will disable sync rather that redistribute IGP into BGP.

Steven Weber wrote:

  If I'm understanding no sync correctly your only other option is that
you

  redistribute your entire IGP into BGP, leaving you with a very messy
routing

  table. I view no sync as a good way of keeping your routes neat. I
don't think

  that not using it is practical or advised, although I have been told
many a time

  that it is on by default for a reason.

  My $.02

  Steve

  ----- Original Message -----

  From: crl

  To: Groupstudy

  Sent: 3/4/01 3:14:43 PM

  Subject: BGP no sync and Bootcamp

  Labs

  Just finished my first run through Bootcamp Lab #6. Not a very
tough

  one

  anymore if you skip the protocols that are irrelevant to today's
lab...

  To

  shake things up a bit, I decided to try to get the BGP configs
all

  working

  without using the no sync command (I know that it wasn't outlawed
in

  the

  lab.)

  Well I had a terrible time of this. I admit, BGP is a weak area for
me,

  and

  I likely won't be doing anymore Bootcamp labs until I polish my
BGP

  core

  knowledge. Has anyone else done these labs leaving syncronization
enabled?

  I

  could get about half my routes into the routing table, but the other
half

  I

  just couldn't.

  I know it's been brought up before, but if the odds are that the
lab

  is

  going to outlaw the "no sync" command, why do so many people turn it
on

  when

  doing scenarios?

  That's my thought of the day...



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