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On Sun, 12 May 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote: > BGP will discard any prefix with its own AS in the path, for loop > prevention. Hence, one half of the AS would still be unable to > reach the other half. This is why a partitioned AS is a failure > condition. A tunnel is a means to keep the AS nonpartitioned. > > There are other ways to treat the symptoms, but they aren't > particularly good, imho. True. This also assumes that we aren't talking about vanilla access here or perhaps you don't have local servers. This could also be fixed with a floating static I suppose as well. At any rate, it depends on your setup I suppose. Connecting remote offices != Bad, Vanilla access = probably tolerable. andy -- PGP Key Available at http://www.tigerteam.net/andy/pgp
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