Re: Analogue Leaselines

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:44:29PM +0300, Sematimba Noah K wrote:
> >   Well your question is not silly to some and the answer is to enhance the effeciency of traffic.
> Well this will only be useful if the two leased lines are to two different
> ISPs. But otherwise I do not see the need if you're connecting to the same
> ISP with one default gateway.

Also, there are extremely good reasons for _not_ running OSPF between you
and your customer. It gives the customer the ability to inject any routes
they like into the ISP, potentially breaking the entire ISP's network.

If you want to run a routing protocol to your customers, you must use BGP.

Brian.

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