From: Peter Van Oene (pvo@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 09:21:52 GMT-3
This is the case in the real world and if the lab asked you to do otherwise, I'
d recommend you do it.
Pete
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On 8/20/2001 at 6:02 AM Beamish, Richard wrote:
>I was reading the Cisco BGP Case Study Section 1 and found this commet. I
>was wondering if this is generally the case as far as "update-source
>loopback" command goes. I am looking at this from the lab perspective.
>
>"Using a loopback interface to define neighbors is common with iBGP, but
>not
>with eBGP. Normally the loopback interface is used to make sure the IP
>address of the neighbor stays up and is independent of hardware functioning
>properly. In the case of eBGP, peer routers are frequently directly
>connected and loopback doesn't apply."
>
>thanks
>Dick Beamish
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