Re: BGP Synchronization Rule - changed in 12.0??

From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 08:52:29 GMT-3


   Check out this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/tech/tk648/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094431.shtml

   Also as of 12.2.8, If I recall correctly, it may be 8T,
synchronization is disabled by default finally!!

   Dave

cebuano wrote:
> After reading the Practical Design pages, I missed this very important
> paragraph...
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/icsbgp4.htm#xtocid2
> 043950
>
> Turning off synchronization on Router A will cause Router A to advertise
> network 203.250.15.0. This step is required because Router A will not
> synchronize with OSPF because of mask differences. For the same reason,
> synchronization should also be turned off on Router B so that it can
> advertise network 203.250.13.0.
>
> So, does anyone have a link that I can look up as to why the different
> Masks will cause problems with Synchronization?
>
> TIA.
> Elmer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joe Chang
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:53 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: BGP Synchronization Rule - changed in 12.0??
>
> Cebuano wrote:
>
>>My question is this.if synchronization is turned ON (default).even if
>>the BGP routes are learned via OSPF.BGP does not install them in its
>>routing table. Is this how synchronization affects iBGP peer
>>advertisements?
>
>
> I think in this case the rule of synchronization still holds because the
> BGP
> routes A is advertising have been successfully installed in the BGP
> table of
> B. The routing table (which is a separate entity from the BGP table, of
> course) does not install the BGP routes because of the lower AD of OSPF
> (which you have already discovered in your second example). In other
> words,
> what you observed is not a failure of synchronization because a
> successful
> update of the BGP table does not necessarily mean the routing table must
> also reflect that update. In your first example router B should be able
> to
> advertise its IBGP routes to the external AS.
> .
> .

-- 
David Madland
CCIE# 2016
Sr. Network Engineer
Qwest Communications
612-664-3367

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston Churchill .



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