North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [eng/rtg] changing loopbacks
Randy Bush wrote: >>Personally, the cleanest way I've been able to accomplish changing this >>in regard to OSPF, logging and authentication on Cisco's is to suck >>down the running config, make the changes in your editor of choice, >>push it back up to startup-config and schedule a reboot. iBGP is much >>easier to make the changes as you outline. > > > this is my fear. which is why i asked. pushing out new configs > (the canonic config is on disk, not the router [0]) and setting a > reload of a bunch of routers at time t0 does not give me warm > fuzzies about what the world will be like at time tn (n > 0). > > but i may have to take that path. i am hoping folk will give me a > magic pill. after all, any group with such a deep understanding of > how to deal with the world's social ills must know a bit of router > magic <smirk>. You may need to change your BGP router-id to match if you set it explicitly, which *may* alter path selection (a long way down the tree I admit). Another nasty is if you run TE and use the old Loopback as your TE-ID, even with IS-IS. Plus of course, your zone/hosts file for managing/polling these nodes in the first place :-) -- Ian Dickinson Development Engineer PIPEX [email protected] http://www.pipex.net This e-mail is subject to: http://www.pipex.net/disclaimer.html
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