I've been trying to sort out a routing paradox in my lab and I'm hoping someone 
might have some insight.

Routers 1-4 are all speaking ISIS-L2.
Routers 1,2 originate a default route into ISIS.
Routers 1,2 speak MP-iBGP northbound and receive a default route from their 
respective northbound MP-iBGP sessions.
Routers 1,2 redistribute ISIS-L2 routes into MP-iBGP so the north side has 
reachability.

Problem - Because the AD of ISIS is lower than iBGP, R1 and R2 see the ISIS 
default route an ignore the BGP default route.  This causes a routing loop.

>From what I've read, it's not possible to apply some sort of filter to the the 
>ISIS process on R1 or R2 to ignore a learned ISIS default route and just 
>originate a default route.

I can't see any way of adding a route-map to the MP-iBGP sessions on R1 or R2 
or either of their northbound MP-iBGP routers to change the AD of the default 
to less than 115.

I can modify the ISIS distance on R1 and R2 to be greater than iBGP, but that 
would ultimately lead to all ISIS routes on R1/R2 being ignored in favour of 
the MP-BGP routes for the same destinations being learned from northbound iBGP. 
 Likely more routing loops would ensue here.

I could somehow tag the ISIS routes that are redistributed into MP-BGP on R1/R2 
and write a route-map to filter those routes from being announced back down to 
R1 and R2 alleviating the loop.  I'm wondering though, is there's a more 
straightforward answer that I'm not seeing.

Thanks in advance.



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