I know that Traffic Engineering is only possible with IS-IS or OSPF... so EIGRP won't be a good option...
Rgds. On 8/24/07, Kris Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to find out the implications of using EIGRP to > distribute the loopbacks for a BGP/MPLS network instead of the usual > OSPF or ISIS. But either it isn't a very well covered topic or my > Google-foo is seriously bad. > > I've lab'ed it up in a very simple environment and for typical Layer 3 > BGP/MPLS VPN applications everything seems to work fine as expected, LDP > continues distributing labels, and VPN packets are label switched across > the network. > > However, I assume the caveats are around using features that use > OSPF/ISIS for transporting additional information or for signalling, > e.g. perhaps taffic engineering info. > > Given there is no information on this on Google I guess it isn't > supported and the recommendation is simply "don't do it". > > But I'm curious, so has anyone done this in a production environment for > any reason, or has anything enlightening to say on the matter? > > Cheers > Kris > > PS: before anyone asks "Why on earth would you want to do that!?" I > don't particularly, but I'd like to know about it for arguments sake. > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Omar E.P.T ----------------- Certified Networking Professionals make better Connections! _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
