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Re: BGP and aggregation

  • From: Ralph Doncaster
  • Date: Sun May 12 21:34:49 2002 
> 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.

I was thinking of doing iBGP over my transit connections (with a couple 
of static routes so the iBGP works) AND over my inter-city circuit.  Any
reason why this won't work?

-Ralph