RE: comments on proposed setup

[Vincent Kaabunga <kavin@uol.co.ug>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Rob Gipman wrote:

> Hey but BGP is there to ensure connectivity at all time. This means that bgp
> finds out that if the internal link is down the traffic will go external via
> the internet. There is no other routing protocol capable to do that for you.

True, if U're using public ASNs.

But then, if U're using BGP and the link went down wouldn't the route
be withdrawn from the RIB? And if so, wouldn't the packets destined to
that subnet end up going  down the default route? Just a thought.


LAter,
	Vincent