SP / Enterprise design (dis)similarities

Tue Oct 11 03:14:37 UTC 2011

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Tom Lanyon <tom+nanog at oneshoeco.com> wrote:

> Finally - are there any reasons to avoid running next-hop-self on ibgp sessions?  The upside is we get to avoid distributing all of our transit/peer upstream point to point links into the rest of the network.  Again, I understand this may be undesirable from a SP perspective, but when our 'clients' are all a bunch of internal servers it makes sense to keep iBGP/IGP as clean as possible...

Route reflectors in the mix? Next-hop-self not so useful there...

-M