RE: Routing comment

[Mark Lastdrager <]

At Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Morgan Dollard wrote:

>>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?

;-)

Routers can have more than one ethernet interface. 

Mark Lastdrager
Pine Internet

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