Re: BGP Sync Rule

From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 12:19:01 GMT-3


  I think I already mentioned this but at the risk of repeating
myself... Cisco finally changed the default behavior of synchronization
and disabled it by default. I first noticed this in 12.2.8T, don't
think it's in the mainline but I haven't checked the release notes.

  Dave

Prio Utomo wrote:
>
> Dear Experts,
>
> I just want to confirm my understanding regarding the BGP Sync Rule, I read
> from Jeff Doyle that the rule said something like this
>
> "prefixes learned IBGP will be put in the IGP routing table or forwarded to
> EBGP if only those prefixes available in the IGP Routing table", right ?
>
> I tried to disable the syncronization on the border router but above rule is
> not applied... not until the next hope of those prefixes appear in the IGP
> routing table....
>
> So my concusion was when sync disabled in the border router the next hope of
> the prefixes must be appear in the IGP routing table as well, for those
> prefixes to be put in IGP routing table or forwarded to EBGP peer.
>
> Regards,
> PU

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David Madland
CCIE# 2016
Sr. Network Engineer
Qwest Communications
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