bgp behavior with exchange prefix in ebgp
Gert Doering gert at space.net
Thu Oct 2 10:13:54 CEST 2003
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:10:51AM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > - filter the exchange prefix(es) for all IXes that you participate *and
> > all more specifics* on *all* eBGP sessions. This is strongly recommended
> > even when already using next-hop-self (more specifics can break eBGP
> > sessions at the IXP peering routers)
>
> A third and additional defensive measure could be to adjust the
> preference of your IGP to a value below that for eBGP, and do the
> moral equivalent of "redistribute connected" on the exchange
> point router into your IGP.
While I agree that it's useful, it still needs measure 2 - the problem
being more-specific annonucements of the IXP prefixes (which can't be
caught by the IGP<->BGP preference).
Gert Doering
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