4 Sep
2000
4 Sep
'00
12:47 p.m.
At Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Morgan Dollard wrote:
But what if the ethernet interface dies? Your BGP session dies with it. For that reason it is advised to assign the BGP peer address to your loopback device and set the peering from that address.
Exactly, why would you want to keep sending trafic over that WAN link when the router's conection to the lan has failed?
;-) Routers can have more than one ethernet interface. Mark Lastdrager Pine Internet -- email: mark@lastdrager.nl :: ML1400-RIPE :: tel. +31-70-3111010 http://www.pine.nl :: RIPE RegID nl.pine :: fax. +31-70-3111011 PGP key ID 92BB81D1 :: Dutch security news @ http://security.nl Today's excuse: You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus.