Re: BGP Backdoor

Thanks for the quick reply Shaukat. It makes more sense to me now.

Nick

2009/4/7 Shaukat Khalil (shkhalil) <shkhalil_at_cisco.com>

> Nick,
>
> Consider a situation where you have two Autonomous systems and you are
> doing some kind of IGP between them now if you learn the same route
> through bgp process although the bgp is a less efficient way of reaching
> but bgp being lesser admin. Distance, it will be trusted. In order to
> avoid this you use the backdoor command to increase the distance of bgp
> to 200 so it is not trusted. Thanks.
>
> Shaukat
>
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> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone help me understand BGP backdoor command please? Does anyone
> have a real world example of why it would be used?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
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