From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 00:43:37 GMT-3
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:12:37PM -0700, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
> I notice in a couple places, Karl Solie and Leah Lynch, in CCIE
> Practical Studies II, use a static route to null 0 in order to make sure
> that a local network advertises properly to a BGP peer.
What Karl and Leah had done is mostly done in real-world environment, where it
is recommended that an AS always null-route w/ high A.D. their aggregate to
prevent route-looping up to whomever they have default-route or less specific
route pointed to (also to stabilize their BGP announcements when their internal
IGP or connected interfaces holding the announced routes begin flapping). This
seems like to be a BCP amongst most people doing BGP.
> For example, on page 805, there is an explicit advertisement of the
> 191.19.42.0/24 net within BGP, and just to be on the "safe" side, they
> added: ip route 191.19.42.0 255.255.255.0 null0 253
>
> I understand the need for a high administrative distance on the static
> route, but is this kind of route allowed in the lab exam?
Since it is statically/manually configured, IMHO it constitutes static route.
So I think it is safer to stay away from doing that in lab unless you are
permitted to do so.
>
> Is it one of those real world things we're not allowed to do on lab day?
Sounds like it. :)
Since BGP scans rib before announcing a prefix, the only course of action w/o
null route is probably to create loopbacks and assign addrs there..
-J
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