You can set up BGP and receive default only also if thats all your looking for. I understand the reticence of the ISP in communicating with a IGP though that just wasn't clear in your original post.
Dave sam sneed wrote: > > One of the reasons was that the Datacenter we are in only use BGP or OSPF as > routing protocols. They use OSPF for there inside network and will only let > us use BGP4 to connect with them. We considered using RIPv2 since we only > need them to advertise the default gateway to use. It seems however they > will not use RIPv2. We don't want to use static routes becuase there are > situations when a physical connection between our and their router are up > but their router experiences a soft failure event making it unreachable. So > we are forced to use BGP4 by them even though its overkill. > Our current L3 switches support RIPv2 so hopefully we can get the ISP to use > it on our interface to send us a default route only. > > ""MADMAN"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I don't see how or why you would choose BGP??? Unless your dual > > homing to the Internet or connecting large disparate IGP networks. Any > > IGP will give you fault tolerance, some are just more quick to converge. > > > > Dave > > > > sam sneed wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a question I hope someone maybe able to help me with. I have a > > > setup that will be in a data center. They are giving us two handoffs a > > > primary and shadow on 2 distinct subnets. These will be ethernet > > > connections.I would like to use 2 routers running HSRP for our servers > > > inside our network. I also want the routers to run BGP4 for fault > > tolerance, > > > they do not need to load share.The only thing I want to use BGP for is > to > > > get my default gateway. The routers will need to have 2 eth interfaces > > each. > > > Does anyone know the cheapest router that could do this? > > > > > > Thanks alot > > -- > > David Madland > > Sr. Network Engineer > > CCIE# 2016 > > Qwest Communications Int. Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 612-664-3367 > > > > "Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" -- David Madland Sr. Network Engineer CCIE# 2016 Qwest Communications Int. Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 612-664-3367 "Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=32088&t=32029 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
