iBGP next hop and multi-access media

Mon Oct 7 19:16:43 UTC 2002

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:

> It seems pretty obvious to me that if you have a an ethernet segment with
> multiple routers on it that adding a secondary IP to each one is more
> complicated and error-prone than adding it to one and having a dynamic
> routing protocol notify the rest of the routers on the segment.

They are dynamic routing protocols, not dynamic gateway-creation
protocols.  You're asking iBGP to create an interface.  iBGP (and other
dynamic routing protocols) don't do that. 

Pete

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