I don't think that's true. Perhaps a bug you encountered? advertise-best-external definitely should work for unlabeled IP.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 at 17:14, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 05:01:25PM +0200, Saku Ytti via cisco-nsp wrote: > > a) fast-external-fallover is default, you can break it by doing > > multipath (e.g. some configuration related to blackholing next-hop > > manipulation or GTSM may break it) > > b) you may not need 'add-path' to have backup, if you have full-mesh > > 'advertise-best-external' if enough. If you have RR you need both. > > "advertise-best-external" was indeed what I was thinking about, thanks. > > (Note that on IOS XR this only works if you use labeled unicast, as > we found out to our dismay...) > > gert > -- > "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you > feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted > it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." > Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
