Re: Redistribute OSPF to BGP

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 20:10:02 GMT-3


At 3:20 PM -0400 9/11/02, Jay Greenberg wrote:
>I just did this in a lab, and on a router running IOS 12.0(21a), it did
>not require the *match* keyword to perform redistribution from ospf to
>BGP.

Do remember that the IETF has officially designated RFC 1403 as
"historic," or, in other words, obsolete. If Cisco tests on it, it's
similar to testing on synchronization -- something no ISP actually
uses.

>
>It seems really odd to me that they would have said that, however I have
>a theory. The referenced RFC 1403 states that:
>
> The default MUST be to export no routes from OSPF into
> BGP. A single configuration parameter MUST permit all
> OSPF inter-area and intra-area routes to be exported
> into BGP.
>
>Theoretically, that could be misunderstood. Maybe the initial
>programmers thought that "the default must be" meant even when
>"redistribute ospf 1" is supplied.
>
>Can anyone try this on an old IOS version? Can anyone clear this up?
>
>On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 14:01, Peng Zheng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> >From
>> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/104/bgp-ospf-redis.html
>>
>> It said when you redistribute OSPF to BGP, you must
>> use match. But in CIM BGP, match is not used.
>>
>> I'm wondering if I should use it.



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