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Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Tue Oct 08 10:11:31 2002 
With the right MASK they could be local :)


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:15:59AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
> >
> > > RD> When I setup a situation like the above, with Router B
> > > RD> advertising the 172.16.16.0/24 to router A, router A sees a
> > > RD> next hop of 10.10.10.2.  This is not good since packets from
> > > RD> A going to the 172.16.16 subnet get sent to Router B, which
> > > RD> then ARPs the desitnation, instead of just being ARPed by
> > > RD> router A.
> > >
> > > Is this what you're trying to do:
> > >
> > > 	route-map <foo>
> > > 	 match <whatever>
> > > 	 set ip next-hop <something>
> >
> > Not really, what I want is router A to learn that ther is no next hop IP-
> > the subnet is on the local ethernet.
> >
> 
> (except that 172.x.x.x isn't 'local' to the 10.x.x.x network, even if they
> are connected to the same physical network)
>