Re: Redistributing BGP Into OSPF

From: Private Ryan (pv.ryan@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 18 2005 - 00:59:12 GMT-3


As the IOS said, redistribute iBGP to IGP is dangerous because it may
cause routing loop. Thus, you need to enter "bgp
redistribute-internal" to make sure that you understand the risk and
do redistribution.

Ryan

2005/9/18, Curt Girardin <curt.girardin@chicos.com>:
> You're not alone. I had this very same problem about a year ago in a
> work-related lab. Then I beat my head against the wall again a couple
> weeks ago while revisiting that lab. Hopefully I don't forget again.
>
> Curt
>
>
>
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> Subject: Redistributing BGP Into OSPF
>
> I almost smashed my router on this one.
>
> Task was to redistribute BGP routes into OSPF. Doyle books say simply
> type "redistribute bgp as_num subnets" under OSPF and voila - it should
> work. It doesn't. Halabi doesn't help either.
>
> Turns out there is a problem redistributing iBGP learned routes into
> IGP.
> Three hours of troubleshooting later I found the bgp
> redistribute-internal command and finally worked.
>
> Just wanted to vent my frustration because the routing bibles only
> mention a problem of redistributing too many BGP routes and overwhelming
> the IGP.
>
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