OT: Nanog Post: redistribute bgp considered harmful

From: Nigel Taylor (nigel_taylor@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 08:20:56 GMT-3


All,
       This was a recent post on the Nanog list which I thought could get
some interest on the list. Basically, the poster is questioning the
relevance or real world requirements/need for certain commands, in this case
it's the "redistribute bgp" command.

Here's the original post...

Sean Donelan wrote:

 Should the Service Provider version of routing software include the
  redistribute bgp command? Other than CCIE labs, I haven't seen a
  real-world use for redistributing the BGP route table into any IGP.

  If the command was removed (or included a Are your sure? question) what
  would the affect be on ISPs, other than improving reliability by
  stopping network engineers from fubaring a backbone?

Thoughts!

Nigel



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