BGP and aggregation

Mon May 13 01:31:54 UTC 2002

> BGP will discard any prefix with its own AS in the path, for loop
> prevention. Hence, one half of the AS would still be unable to
> reach the other half. This is why a partitioned AS is a failure
> condition. A tunnel is a means to keep the AS nonpartitioned.

I was thinking of doing iBGP over my transit connections (with a couple 
of static routes so the iBGP works) AND over my inter-city circuit.  Any
reason why this won't work?

-Ralph