RE: Routing comment

[Morgan Dollard <]

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From: Mark Lastdrager [
	    
	    
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 11:40
To: Morgan Dollard
Cc: 'routing-wg@localhost
Subject: Re: Routing comment


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.


Exactly, why would you want to keep sending trafic over that WAN link when
the router's conection to the lan has failed?
MOrgan




Mark Lastdrager
Pine Internet

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