Re: BGP multicast address family

From: Gilles Fabre <fabre.gilles_at_voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:19:49 +0200 (CEST)

I agree with you...
& on the other hand, you can redistribute an IGP into Multicast BGP, so it can
confuse

My view is to consider Multicast BGP not as a routing protocol but rather as
an alternative solution to satisfy RPF check.

Gilles.

> Message du 30/08/12 C 18h40
> De : "Joe Astorino"
> A : "Vincent Tay"
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> Objet : Re: BGP multicast address family
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> I think you are talking about apples and oranges here Vince.
> Multicast routes are not handled by your IGP, they are handled by a
> multicast routing protocol such as PIM. Therefore, trying to
> redistribute multicast information into an IGP doesn't make any sense.
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> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Vincent Tay wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> > Is it normal that BGP multicast address family routes cannot be
> > redistributed into IGP.
> >
> > Thanks
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