Re: Routing comment

[Mark Lastdrager <]

At Mon, 4 Sep 2000, owner-routing-wg@localhost wrote:

>In most cases, the Provider will want to peer its BGP session to the IP it
>assigned the customer. This setup allows the BGP session to be peered to the
>Ethernet interface, which in turns leeds to an end to end point of failure,
>from the Ethernet Interface, to the Wan Interface. This succesfully allows
>the ISP to monitor the customer's network availability without the use of
>piningin methods, and relying solely upon the well being of the BGP session.

But what if the ethernet interface dies? Your BGP session dies with it.
For that reason it is advised to assign the BGP peer address to your
loopback device and set the peering from that address.

Mark Lastdrager
Pine Internet

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